Fine for smoking joints in public

[kiwi_farmer]

16 October 2008

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Rotterdam has decided that it will no longer be soft on people smoking joints in public.

 

Trouw reports, anyone caught smoking marijuana in public will be fined EUR 50 as of November.

 

Rotterdam Mayor Ivo Opstelten says: "Smoking joints in public was always forbidden, but up to now it has always been tolerated."

 

Since it has emerged how damaging marijuana can be, political tolerance for the habit has evaporated. Just under a year ago, the city council established that a large number of adolescents were "smoking away their teenage years". Coffee shops are not allowed within 250 metres from secondary schools. The Christian Union wants to go further and include primary schools in the legislation.

[andybotwin]

Those primary school kids have had it too good, for too long!