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Dutch Minister Takes High Tone Over Marijuana Jobs
Posted by FoM on February 26, 1999 at 10:05:49 PT

LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands, - A Dutch local authority has provoked a minor outcry by subsidising work experience for the unemployed in coffee shops selling marijuana. 
Soft drugs are technically illegal in the Netherlands but their sale in so-called coffee shops is tolerated under strict conditions, such as that marijuana should not be sold to minors. Social Affairs Minister Klaas de Vries said this week he was astonished by Leeuwarden council's decision to pay the wages of four people selling marijuana in some of the city's coffee shops. The council doesn't see what the fuss is about. In a letter to the minister, it noted that his predecessor, Ad Melkert, had imposed no restrictions on the sectors qualifying for work experience subsidies. "If the minister believes the subsidies are not intended for this sector, then the law should be changed (to reflect that)," the letter said. 
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