Published February 10,2023
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The metropolis of Amsterdam, a well-liked vacation spot for vacationers who go to its marijuana espresso retailers, will ban smoking hashish in public within the red-light district as a part of a marketing campaign to wash up the realm.
Smoking the drug within the streets might be prohibited in a canal-lined part of city the place there are brothels, intercourse retailers and strip golf equipment, town council mentioned in a press release on Thursday.
The transfer was known as an “historic intervention” by Dutch Amsterdam’s “Het Parool” newspaper and metropolis council mentioned the ban could also be prolonged to the terraces of hashish espresso retailers at a later date.
It is a part of a marketing campaign by Amsterdam’s first feminine mayor, Femke Halsema, to make the neighbourhood extra habitable for residents. The space attracts tens of millions of vacationers yearly, but additionally attracts crime.
“Residents of the old town suffer a lot from mass tourism and alcohol and drug abuse in the streets”, metropolis council mentioned within the assertion.
“Tourists also attract street dealers, who in turn cause crime and insecurity,” it mentioned.
The metropolis additionally plans to chop again opening instances for eating places, bars and intercourse staff, and to additional tighten the sale of alcohol within the red-light district, it mentioned.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
