Da Sabine Fiedler

La canapa d'acquisto nella città olandese di Maastricht presto significherà fare le vostre prendere impronte digitali, la vostra faccia esplorata ed i vostri dati biometrici essere registrato.

Tutti e 15 i negozi di caffè nella città del sud sono spesa circa 100.000 euro (67.000 libbre) che installano un sistema di sicurezza che marche esso più duro per un fumatore della canapa di sotto-età da entrare che un terrorista per regolare piede in Europa, secondo vinaccia Josemans, testa dell'unione locale del negozio di caffè.

“Siamo ashamed per questo attacco alla vostra segretezza„, leggiamo un opuscolo esplicativo sul sistema che comincia in settembre.

The coffee shops face a continual struggle to prove they are not selling to people under the age of 18 or more than 5 grams of cannabis a day to any one individual.

If they can’t, they risk being shut down.

“If a 17-year-old comes here, shows the ID of his very similar-looking older brother and then gets caught by the police with cannabis bought in our shop, we have to prove that he broke the rules, not us,” said Josemans.

Cannabis is theoretically illegal in the Netherlands but has been tolerated in small amounts since the 1970s.

Customers in Maastricht will have their fingers and face scanned. The scans will be compared with stored data and, if everything matches, they will be able to enter the coffee shop.

No names and addresses are stored and details on the amount of cannabis bought every day will be saved only until midnight.

The information is completely secure, coffee shop owners say. But Josemans concedes 90 percent of his clients don’t like the system and he expects the new measures to hurt sales initially.

“I don’t like them registering what you buy, it’s too much Big Brother”, says Barry, 34. “But a fingerprint is okay.”

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