Yeah the cannabis cup '04 is in Amsterdam, its around this time of the year i think

In my opinion I doubt the events will have an influence on it going ahead, there is to much money to be made. To be a judge in the main cup tourists have to pay (alot of money) to first become a judge which gives them a card to score the weed on and a badge to say they r a judge. Then I think they get a map with all the coffee shops on where they have to go and pay again for all the weed (you dont get much for the ammount you pay to be a judge in the first place). A friend of mine was in Amsterdam a couple of years ago while the cup was on and every where was rammed full of people.

I've read in a few magazines how the cup has been totally commercialized in the last few years.
But yeah........that is my opinion on why the cup will still go ahead regardless.

Peace
Herbaholic00 Reviewed by Herbaholic00 on . Holland's Deadly Tolerance Holland's Deadly Tolerance The Weekly Standard ^ | November 22, 2004 issue | Christopher Caldwee THE AFTERNOON of Election Day in Washington, one of the Dutch journalists in town to cover the vote mentioned to me that there had been a spectacular killing in Amsterdam that morning, which would be international news as soon as the dust cleared from the Bush-Kerry contest. True enough. Most of the world now knows that a Muslim assailant intercepted the controversialist filmmaker Theo van Rating: 5