Last updated 7 years ago by UtrechtCentral.com

The abolition of the so-called ‘wietpas’ on Monday comes as good news to tourists and other pot smokers in Utrecht. The wietpas was intended to restrict access to coffee shops to those registered as an official club member with a limit of 2,000 members.

“It is good that we can enforce our own rules now with regards to coffee shop policy,” said a spokesman for the Utrecht town hall.

The weed pass first came into effect on May 1, 2012 in the provinces of Limburg, Zeeland and North Brabant in an effort to tackle illegal border trading and limit the purchase amount to 5 grams of cannabis per day.

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