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Originally Posted by femmefatale  TIF, it is extremely easy to travel between European countries now. It is probably no more expensive or burdensome to travel from Belgium to the Netherlands than it is to travel from the Netherlands to Ireland.
My Dutch friends and acquaintances (from all over the country) approve of their country's permissive approach. They are, however, very unhappy about the fact that the Netherlands attracts hoards of visitors looking for easy drugs (among other things). They see this as an unfortunate and unpleasant by-product of the permissive approach. Surprisingly enough, they actually don't have a very high opinion of drug users. |
femme, the more countries there are in which drugs are legal, the less drug tourists that country will have. Put it this way, if X people want to go on a holiday to a destination where drugs are legal in Europe and there is only once such place (Netherlands), then X will travel there. If there are two such destinations (Ireland and Netherlands) , then each country will get, on average X/2 visitors.
There won't be "hoards of visitors". If Ireland decriminalised drugs, perhaps it might encourage other countries too, which would bring down the numbers even further.