The Netherlands, which is popularly believed to have legalized cannabis use along these lines, has in fact tolerated only small-scale retail sales of marijuana in a limited number of coffee shops in its larger cities. Marijuana cultivation remains illegal and coffee shop sales are regulated – more strictly in recent years in response to complaints from neighboring countries about “drug tourism.”
我们很难去分辨孰是孰非，因为至今还未有任何国家通过类似的政策。一直被人们视为大麻合法国度的荷兰实际上只允许在其大城市的有限几个咖啡店中小规模地销售大麻。大麻种植依然是非法的，而咖啡店的销售则受到管制——且在周边各国纷纷抱怨本国公民赴荷兰享受“毒品之旅”之后，管制也有逐渐收紧之势。