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It breaks down like this: it’s legal to buy it, it’s legal to own it, and, if you’re the proprietor of a SuperSmoker sim-cigarette shop, it’s legal to sell it. It’s legal to carry it, but that doesn’t really matter ’cause — get a load of this — if you get stopped by the cops in Amsterdam, it’s illegal for them to search you. I mean, that’s a right… the cops in Amsterdam don’t have.