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And beside the azaleas, you’ll find a wonderful bouquet of weed

It was business as usual in the Netherlands. Wash the plates. Feed the hookers. Patrol the streets. It’s ususally like that for all, from the young to the old. Why, for one senior citizen, his morning routine is the same as it is everyday-get out the watering pot, make some coffee, go water the plants in the front yard. ALL the plants. The rhododendrons, the azalea bushes, the tulips, the begonias and the marijuana plants. WAIT, WHAT? WEED?!!!?

Yes, a local citizen found himself victim to not just to a newly created crack force set up by the Dutch government to crack down on marijuana cultivation in the country, but as he pleaded his case, also the local youth hooligans, the apparent true perpetrators of the crime. Because, when in doubt, it’s always the fault of teenagers. The gentleman promised to destroy the plants.

In other and totally unrelated news, the same old man suddenly had his glaucoma cleared up.

Dutch Government: ‘Get your tobacco out of our weed!’

Slowly but surely in the Netherlands, smoking of tobacco in public has been made illegal. And not just public public, but the inside kind of public too. So, faithful Dutch reader of our site, what does this mean for you? It means that the next time you get coffee and a crumpet at one of your more infamous coffee shops, your late morning joint will need to be tobacco-less. BUG-WAH?!!?

The Dutch Government hasn’t exactly been known for well thought out plans, it would seem. Could this spell the end of the “cafes”? Well, not totally, but it’s not going to be anything but bad for business, that’s for sure. Sounds like the government is like a restaurant in my town (Famous Anthony’s in Southwest Plaza, Roanoke, VA) that refuses to install a credit card machine for payment purposes-are you just diametrically opposed to making money?

Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the new, more sensitive, more politically correct “WORLD”.