Creeping Bloombergism
Amsterdam's famous hash bars are in trouble. Not, mind you, because the Dutch government has reversed its relatively tolerant stance on marijuana possession, but because of new laws designed to protect employees from second-hand smoke. (They'll be even safer, one imagines, when the cafes where they work go out of business.) The laws were designed primarily to combat tobacco smoking, which summons to mind the possibility that in the Europe of tomorrow, heroin will be socialized and cigarettes banned. One cafe owner, incidentally, has come up with a novel way around the new rules:
We can set up a special fan that will waft a range of marijuana fumes through the premises. Customers can sit back and enjoy without actually smoking.
