drug tourism

Concerns were raised about "drug tourism" to the area.

In recent years drugs tourism is increasingly clamped down on in the Netherlands.

Drug tourism thrives because legislation controlling the sale, possession, and use of drugs varies dramatically from one jurisdiction to another.

Drug tourism to Amsterdam is allowed to continue, and the Netherlands can go on exporting drug misuse to other countries.

Drug tourism is travel for the purpose of obtaining or using drugs for personal use that are unavailable or illegal in one's home jurisdiction.

In the debate on how to confront drug tourism, the Minister of Justice has recommended forbidding sales of soft drugs to nonresidents.

We do not yet know the implications that the removal of border controls between the Schengen countries will have on the younger generation as regards drug tourism.

Mr. Tans said the flourishing drug tourism had also attracted pushers of hard drugs from Amsterdam, who often harass people on the streets.

Of course across the new Member States the approaches to drugs are different. This creates problems of its own, not least in the form of drug tourism.

The song's lyrics, written by drummer Neil Peart, may be interpreted as describing drug tourism (specifically marijuana [1]).

In an interview with journalist Roger Rumrill in 2005, Arévalo lamented the state of drug tourism in Peru.

Drug tourism to other countries is also popular among college students in the United States younger than 21 who are not yet of the legal drinking age for alcohol purchasing and consumption.

More than two thirds of cannabis smoking customers in the border city's 13 coffee shops are foreigners and banning the French, the largest group, was a pilot scheme aimed at cutting drug tourism.

Empirical studies show that drug tourism is heterogeneous and might involve either the pursuit of mere pleasure and escapism or a quest for profound and meaningful experiences through the consumption of drugs.

But the law drew a firestorm of criticism from American officials on the border and among American drug enforcement officials in Mexico, who argue any move toward decriminalization would encourage drug tourism.

I would really like to know whether it was asleep when, at the beginning of the year, hard drugs were legalised in the Czech Republic and now, thanks to open borders, we have fabulous drug tourism.

One of the biggest problems caused by drug tourism is the influx of foreign tourists, including many young Britons, who come to Netherlands to smoke and consume cannabis that is illegal in their home countries.

The Netherlands has had a great deal of trouble with drugs tourism as a result of its excessively tolerant policy and other countries in turn have suffered as a result of the Dutch policy.

In Australia, the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia have a more liberal approach to marijuana use, promoting interstate drug tourism, particularly from Victoria and New South Wales.

Some do not allow any; most of these municipalities are either controlled by strict Protestant parties, or are bordering Belgium and Germany and do not wish to receive "drug tourism" from those countries.

Cannabis cafés near to schools have been closed and in a bid to crack down on drug tourism the authorities are planning to limit sales to people who have a "grass pass", a document restricted to Dutch residents.

The purpose of this plan was to reduce the impact of drug tourism on the city centre, such as parking problems and the more serious issue of the illegal sale of hard drugs in the vicinity of the coffeeshops.

Drug tourism can be also defined as the phenomenon by which one's travel experience involves the consumption and usage of drugs that are considered to be illegal or illegitimate in either the visited destination or the tourist's country of origin.

Judith Bryan, a spokeswoman for the American Embassy here, said the officials in Washington had urged Mexico "to review the legislation and to avoid the perception that drug use would be tolerated in Mexico and to prevent drug tourism."

This means that countries like France and Germany should do more to treat their drug addicts but that a country like the Netherlands, for example, should focus on controlling the drugs nuisance created by the "coffee shops" and on drugs tourism.