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Chris Fowlie's TourThis page collects all the reports on alternative cannabis policy options worldwide by NORML President Chris Fowlie, on his World Tour 2002.
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Posted by norml on Sunday, December 01 2002 (13930 reads)
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 NORML News Summer 2003
In 2002 Chris Fowlie toured Europe where he researched cannabis policies and cultural practices. This article examines Switzerland, which is set to become the country with the world's most progressive drug policy.
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Posted by norml on Sunday, December 01 2002 (5774 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie
Swiss law says that smoking cannabis is illegal, but does not mention growing or selling it. This creates a unique situation where everything is kept hush-hush but right out in the open.
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Posted by norml on Sunday, December 01 2002 (4612 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie
Germany was once thought to be on its way to becoming the next Netherlands, but it is now considered one of the harshest countries in Europe, with its citizens living in fear of roadside sweat tests and police sniffer dogs.
Having said that, it is rare to be prosecuted for possession, let alone go to jail for it, and there is a thriving German ganja culture with huge Hanf celebrations and parades all over the country.
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Posted by norml on Sunday, December 01 2002 (6690 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie
In the middle of Copenhagen (the "merchants haven"), in a former army barracks, is a 30-year communal squat of more than 1000 people whose most famous feature is an open air marijuana and hash marketplace.
Christiania was first squatted in 1971 and has been the centre of controversy ever since. Successive governments have constantly threatened to close the social experiment, but have never succeeded.
The most well-known part of Christiania, and the second most visited tourist destination in Copenhagen after the Little Mermaid, is Pusher Street.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, May 01 2002 (3986 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie, President, NORML New Zealand, 2002
 Last June I was searched unlawfully by a group of police officers who claimed to smell cannabis on me. I was arrested and charged with possession of 0.7 grams of cannabis, but I fought the charge in court. In dismissing the charge, Judge Gittos set a precedent that will protect other people from being searched in similar circumstances. It got even better; The Dominion, arguably the most anti-cannabis newspaper in the country, wrongly published that I had been jailed. They refused to retract, we threatened to sue, and settled for enough money to take me around the world to research alternatives to cannabis prohibition. Ahh, the irony. My first stop would be the NORML conference in San Francisco. >>
- NORML Conference 2002, San Francisco, USA
- Vancouver, Canada
- J-Day, London, Bournemouth, UK
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Cannabizness Course, Netherlands
- Dordrect Weed Cup, Netherlands
- Legalize Parade, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- France to Spain
- Manchester: The Dutch Experience, UK
- Switzerland: hemp and hash
- Switzerland: at home on the hash farm
- Germany: uber hanf
- Christiania: scandinavian haven
- Conclusion and Links
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, May 01 2002 (5488 reads)
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 By Chris Fowlie, President, NORML New Zealand, 2002
Chris visits San Francisco. Features the US NORML annual conference, medical marijuana clubs in Oakland and San Francisco, the Tulip vaporiser, grow guide guru Ed Rosenthal, cars running on hempseed oil (pictured), Honeybud (dipped in pure THC) and many famous international law reform activists.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, May 01 2002 (19508 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie, President, NORML New Zealand, 2002
Chris visits Vancouver on the west coast of Canada. Features the Bubble Bag hash extraction system (pictured), Cannabis Culture publisher/seed mail order businessman Marc Emery, the BC Marijuana Party, cannabis-friendly cafes Blunt Brothers and Cafe Amsterdam, www.pot-tv.net, medical suppliers the Compassion Club, the Senate Special Committee on Drugs discussion paper, Philippe Lucas, founder of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society, David Hadorn, protesting outside the IDEAS conference, and the first annual Toker’s Bowl.
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| Chris Fowlie's Tour : London UK
Posted by norml on Wednesday, May 01 2002 (5069 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie, President, NORML New Zealand, 2002
J Day is now celebrated in over 150 cities around the world, and London is the biggest. The International Cannabis Coalition March and Festival is held in Brixton in the Lambeth police district where public pressure has forced police to stop arresting people for cannabis possession.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, May 01 2002 (7320 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie, President, NORML New Zealand, 2002
The Dutch constitution protects the right to "rush" so the use and possession of cannabis is not punishable, but contrary to appearances, coffeeshops are not actually legal in the Netherlands. They are tolerated, which means as long as they follow the rules the law against supply is not enforced. After thirty years of tolerating this blatant open dealing, the Dutch now have lower rates of using cannabis than the rest of Europe or New Zealand.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, May 01 2002 (6507 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie, President, NORML New Zealand, 2002
Just ten minutes by train from Amsterdam, the quiet town of Haarlem is providing a model example to the rest of the world of how coffeeshops can best be run.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, May 01 2002 (4526 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie, President, NORML New Zealand, 2002
I decided to celebrate passing the Haarlem Coffeeshop College course with a trip to Dordrect for the annual Weed Cup.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, May 01 2002 (5015 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie, President, NORML New Zealand, 2002
The Dutch do not celebrate J Day with the rest of the world, partly because they have already achieved what the rest of us want, but mostly because the first Saturday in May is also the Dutch independence day. Marijuana festivities were instead held Saturday June 8 with a Legalize! parade through the city to a waterfront party involving about a dozen sound systems on trucks.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, May 01 2002 (7673 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie, President, NORML New Zealand, 2002
Leaving the land of the free
after the Amsterdam parade, I travelled through France to Spain, and noticed an instant and dramatic drop in quality. As the law changed from tolerant to intolerant, the hash went from soft and fudgey to hard and black. This cannot be good for the health of millions of cannabis consumers in these countries.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, May 01 2002 (6896 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie, President, NORML New Zealand, 2002
I crossed back over the channel and away from the Spanish sun to visit the Dutch Experience, the UK’s first genuine coffeeshop located in Stockport, near Manchester.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, May 01 2002 (4234 reads)
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By Chris Fowlie, President, NORML New Zealand, 2002
Drug policy has little if any impact on whether people choose to use drugs or not, but it does effect how much harm an individual and their community is exposed to.
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