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Cannabis "scratch and sniff cards" issued to Dutch citizens


In a novel bid to combat illegal cannabis cultivation, Dutch authorities started handing out 30,000 cards with a marijuana odour Monday to alert citizens to what their neighbours may be up to.
"Citizens must be alerted to the dangers they face as a result of these plantations, and if they become aware of any suspect situations they must report them," Arnie Loos, spokesman for a government-appointed working group on cannabis cultivation, told journalists in Rotterdam.
Though it remains technically illegal, the Netherlands decriminalised the consumption and possession of under five grammes (0.18 ounces) of cannabis in 1976 under a "tolerance" policy.
Citizens may grow no more than five plants for personal use. Bulk cannabis cultivation and retail remain illegal and are in the hands of criminal organisations in a black-market business worth some two billion euros (2.8 billion dollars) per year.
"Assist in combatting cannabis plantations!" reads the green scratch-card of about 20 centimetres by 10 (eight inches by four) being distributed to residents of the western cities of The Hague and Rotterdam.
With two boxes that release a cannabis odour when scratched, the card also lists a police telephone number.
Organisers said this was a first for the Netherlands, and a pilot project for possible expansion.
"If people do in fact call the number listed on the card, we could make this a national operation," Loos said.
Authorities believe there are some 40,000 illegal cannabis plantations in the Netherlands -- hidden away in attics, apartments or warehouses.
About 6,000 plantations are busted every year.
Of these, about 300, each with between 600 and 1,000 plants, are uncovered in Rotterdam alone, said Richard Anderiesse, a spokesman for the port city's cannabis task force.
Renee de Bruin, spokeswoman for gas and electricity distribution company Stedin, said illegal plantations posed a high risk of fire as the illegal tapping of water and power often led to short circuits.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101108/od_afp/netherlandsdrugscannabisoffbeat_20101108171538
 
this is really lame of them; encouraging rats

I would like one of those stickers.

they should hand out scratch and sniff methlab stickers in california.

i read through the comments and found this

"Just which variety of cannabis did they base their sniff cards on? Besides "dead skunk", cannabis can smell like lemons (Lemon Cleaner), vanilla (Vanilluna), berries (Blueberry Kush), artificial grape (Grape Ape) and one breeder is presently working on a rose-scented variety! All the growers need to do is switch from "skunky" varieties to more pleasantly-scented ones and the neighbor's won't have a clue! LOL"

clearly he has only read the names of the strains.....
My grape ape smells nothing like grapes..... smells sweet and fruity like some sort of candy, but not artificial grape...But my green crack smells like crack... jk

I think any buds that smell significantly like anything in particular usually are not named for how they smell
 
UH! Yeah it will work but I think everyone is going about this "marijuana problem" all wrong.
Its just going to make parents all crazy too. How many more kids do they have to get sent to rehab for marijuana?
 
Someone should send me one! I would seriously probably keep it forever, if I had one. o_O

But honestly, encouraging friends and neighbors to snitch on each other is extremely disturbing to me. That is so underhanded and dirty, in my opinion.
 
Here we go boys - big chance to create havoc.

I say we should get lots of Nederlanders to post a card in a small package to as many fictitious people abroad as possible (preferably UK).

They're legal, and they should get the customs sniffer dogs and officers going crazy opening all the packages that smell of ........ cannabis =D=D

Wicked.
 
Luckily enough most people don't even recognize the smell on the cards. Most say it smells kinda piney.

A notorious cannabis advocate, "Haagse Sjonnie" is threatening to sue the mayor of The Hague over this. I hope he does, all pretty absurd if you ask me.
 
Would love having one of these cards for novelty purposes yea, but the whole idea is retarded. Seems that all of the pro commercial growers are already using charcoal filters and ozone to kill the smell of the grow anyways.
 
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