Dutch mayor shall change the Border Cafes in Belgium

. Gerd Leers, the mayor of the Dutch market town of Maastricht, is acting to deal with the influx of tourists plenty of drugs that cross the borders Belgium and Germany to buy marijuana near the famous Dutch coffee shops cannábicas. Despite complaints from the Belgian government, Leers announced on Tuesday that he wants to move seven of the 15 cafes in the city center to the border, Netherlands Info Service reported.

Leers is calling his scheme "Coffee Corner", but the locals are talking about "cannabis boulevards", each with two or three coffees. Leers is acting to reduce complaints about congestion and crime related to foreign visitors to the cafes and is following the example of the border town of Venlo, who moved two cafes in the center to the border. The Mayor of Venlo reports that although the traffic has decreased, the action resulted in an overall increase in the number of drug tourists.

The Belgian authorities are not happy and have warned against the action. . Just last week, Belgian officials threatened to put cameras along the border and capture plates of vehicles which would lead people who intend to buy marijuana in Holland.
Despite Belgium's 2005 action to return the possession of less than three grams of marijuana, an offense is not arrestable in most cases, Belgian officials say they moved to the border cafes frustrate what they describe their policy of tolerance zero. And because people move freely within the European Union, Belgian border towns such as cafes Lanaken probably see the other side of street.