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Over the Counter Marijuana!
Posted by FoM on June 20, 1999 at 09:04:35 PT
By Phillip Koch 
Source: The Sunday Telegraph
A SYDNEY cafe located 200 metres from a police station is openly selling marijuana to patrons who visit on the pretense of having a cup of coffee.
The Sunday Telegraph bought three small sachets of cannabis for $50 from a man who was running the Cafe Amsterdam in Roslyn Street, Kings Cross. While inside the cafe we witnessed other patrons buying similar bags, a woman cutting up vegetable matter which appeared to be cannabis, and other people openly smoking what smelled like marijuana cigarettes. A person who visited the cafe separately from The Sunday Telegraph said yesterday he was asked by a waiter if he wanted "anything". When he said "what have you got" the waiter produced three small bags of what appeared to be marijuana and said it would cost $20. He refused the offer and then left the cafe. The Sunday Telegraph had the substance we purchased tested by the toxicology unit at Pacific Laboratory Medicine Services. Toxicologist Peter Bowron said: "We found the active ingredient of cannabis, Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the substance. "It is cannabis." The laboratory, as required by law, destroyed the substance after testing it. The revelations come a fortnight before Premier Bob Carr is due to announce his Government's response to last month's historic drug summit, which recommended trials of heroin shooting galleries and relaxed laws for marijuana possession. When The Sunday Telegraph visited the cafe a middle-aged man with a dark bushy beard led us to a table. "You can have a coffee but you don't have to," he said. "We don't push coffee here." He put two glasses of water on the table. When told we did not really want coffee but we "definitely wanted a glass of water" the man asked "How much?" The Sunday Telegraph reporter held up two fingers to indicate $20 worth. The man returned a short time later and placed two bags of marijuana on the table. A Sunday Telegraph photographer captured the incident on a hidden video camera. The man later indicated we could have three bags for $50. The Sunday Telegraph accepted the offer and received the third bag, which contained just a few grams of cannabis, before leaving. The cafe has a sign in its front window which reads "what a great joint". Cafe Amsterdam is located about 200 metres from Kings Cross police station.
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