A Dutch City Seeks to End Drug Tourism

Alice Smeets for The New York Times

Many of the customers for legal drugs in Maastricht, the Netherlands, are young people, and most of them are foreigners.

By SUZANNE DALEY
Published: August 17, 2010

MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — On a recent summer night, Marc Josemans’s Easy Going Coffee Shop was packed. The lines to buy marijuana and hashish stretched to the reception area where customers waited behind glass barriers.

Thousands of “drug touristsâ€