article_snippet.sent: Study at Maastricht University will rankle with the increasing number calling for the legislation of cannabis around the world .
article_snippet.sent: Economists Olivier Marie from the Dutch University and Ulf Zölitz of IZA made Economists Olivier Marie from the Dutch University and Ulf Zölitz of IZA findings based on what happened in Maastricht in 2011 when the city let only German, Dutch and Belgian nationals have access to Dutch 13 coffee shops, where cannabis was sold.
article_snippet.sent: The restriction was put in place to combat drug tourism which was thought to be tarnishing the city’s image.
article_snippet.sent: Tourists particularly from France and Luxembourg were visiting Masstricht solely to smoke cannabis.
article_snippet.sent: Coffee shops may start to spring up in Berlin with Uruguay planning to be the first country to fully legalise the drug.