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High time: after five years, Dutch start legal cannabis trial
Friday, 15 December 2023
The Netherlands’ legal weed experiment kicked off in Breda and Tilburg, with Europe’s first ever licensed and controlled cannabis arriving in city coffeeshops. Health minister Ernst Kuipers joined Br ...
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Legal Cannabis cultivation pilot set to begin on Friday
Thursday, 14 December 2023
The Netherlands’ long-awaited experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation starts in Tilburg and Breda on Friday. Coffeeshops in these two municipalities will be the first to sell weed that was leg ...
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Cannabis : pourquoi la France bloque quand nos voisins européens assouplissent la législation
Sunday, 19 November 2023
« Clubs de cannabis, culture à domicile, Weed care… » : l'Allemagne, le Luxembourg, les Pays-Bas, la Belgique et la Suisse - ces pays frontaliers de la Lorraine et de la Franche-Comté - assouplissent ...
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Blow to red light tourists: cannabis smoking banned in public
Thursday, 25 May 2023
Smoking cannabis in public is forbidden in the centre of Amsterdam from Thursday, as part of a raft of measures to restrain party tourism. In the Burgwallen Oude-Zijde central area, tourists and resi ...
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Tilburg and Breda to kick off regulated marijuana experiment
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Coffee shops in Tilburg and Breda may be able to take part in the experiment with regulated marijuana as early as October, ministers have agreed. The full trial will not take place until 2024 but min ...
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Amsterdam to outlaw cannabis-smoking in red-light district streets
Friday, 10 February 2023
Smoking cannabis on the street in Amsterdam’s red light district will soon be illegal, the city council has announced, as part of a range of bylaws designed to deter tourist excesses and make life mo ...
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Self-medication far outstrips use of prescription marijuana
Monday, 23 January 2023
Most of the 130,000 people in the Netherlands who use cannabis as a medicine to help with depression or pain, for example, buy the plant from a coffee shop or grow it themselves, according to researc ...
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Regulated cultivated cannabis experiment delayed again; could start in 2024
Saturday, 03 December 2022
Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that the experiment in regulated cultivated cannabis will be postponed again. He expects that "as it stands now" only legally produced cannabis will be able to be s ...
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Amsterdam council to vote against banning tourists from coffeeshops
Friday, 30 September 2022
Amsterdam council will vote against a proposal to enforce a national ban against tourists in coffeeshops, where cannabis is smoked. Mayor Femke Halsema formally proposed temporarily banning non-resid ...
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Results of cultivated cannabis experiment won't be ready in 2024: Ministers
Friday, 08 July 2022
The government won't be able to draw conclusions from the regulated cannabis experiment in the Netherlands in 2024. The experiment starts later than planned, also delaying the evaluation. The Cabinet ...
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Banning tourists from cannabis cafes will cut back on crime: Halsema
Saturday, 25 June 2022
Amsterdam’s cannabis cafes are often intertwined with serious crime and play a serious role in money laundering, the capital’s mayor Femke Halsema has told councillors, ahead of Wednesday’s debate on ...
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Cannabis entrepreneurs in Amsterdam feel "ignored" by Mayor Halsema
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Several entrepreneurs in the Amsterdam cannabis industry said they feel ignored by Mayor Femke Halsema. They said they were surprised by Halsema’s announcement saying that she, along with the local l ...
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Amsterdam to ban coffeeshops selling weed to tourists
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Mayor Femke Halsema plans to go through with a ban on coffeeshops selling weed to tourists in Amsterdam, she said in a letter to the city council. According to her, the enforcement of the residents-o ...
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Dutch cannabis cafes see rise in business during COVID-19 pandemic
Monday, 13 December 2021
The cannabis trade in the Netherlands booms despite the current coronavirus restrictions. Whether it is to calm their anxiety or ease the boredom of the past two years, many buyers say their consumpt ...
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ABN raises charges for coffeeshops by 1000% to cover money laundering costs
Thursday, 28 October 2021
ABN AMRO is raising its bank charges for coffeeshops by 1000% to cover the costs of complying with anti-money laundering laws. From January coffeeshop owners who have a business account with the bank ...
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Germany should make cannabis available at pharmacies not ‘coffee shops’, says FDP boss
Monday, 18 October 2021
The Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) are set to engage in coalition talks in a bid to become the next German government. And the future of cannabis will likely ...
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A roundup of countries that permit recreational cannabis
Friday, 15 October 2021
Marijuana may be an issue of easy agreement in the ongoing coalition talks between Germany's leading parties. Despite numerous points of contention, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), neoliberal ...
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Experts warn that keeping tourists out of Amsterdam coffee shops won’t be easy
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Suggestions that foreign tourists be banned from Amsterdam’s cannabis cafes, or coffee shops, have been greeted with alarm by experts. ‘The plan is doomed to fail’ criminologist Ton Nabben told a mee ...
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Mayor: no more weed for tourists in Amsterdam
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
The mayor is taking steps to change Amsterdam's image as the international cannabis capital. Coffeeshops attracted an estimated 1.5 million tourist visits a month before the pandemic, and the new pol ...
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Blown off: Amsterdam will ban foreign tourists from coffeeshops in future
Friday, 08 January 2021
Foreign tourists will be banned from coffeeshops in Amsterdam in future. In a letter to the council, mayor Femke Halsema, the public prosecution service and the police have said that in the future th ...
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Netherlands to draw 10 recreational marijuana growers this week
Monday, 30 November 2020
The Dutch government will hold a draw to choose 10 marijuana cultivators for the country’s upcoming pilot program, according to a letter to Parliament from the medical and justice ministers. The winn ...
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Residents-only rule for coffeeshops proposed in Amsterdam
Friday, 25 September 2020
Amsterdam city council is gearing up for a new discussion on banning non-residents from its coffeeshops next month, after two new proposals were submitted. Although a national law says only Dutch res ...
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It could take 10 years to measure the impact of legalising weed
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
The referendum on legalising recreational cannabis use is just over a month away. Campaigns for and against the change are well under way. We’ve had expert reports from the Helen Clark Foundation, th ...
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Netherlands clarifies application process to grow adult-use cannabis
Thursday, 16 July 2020
The Dutch government wants to clear up several issues regarding the application process to grow legal recreational marijuana. The process is part of an experiment in the Netherlands to legalize – tho ...
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Is the Netherlands finally heading for legalisation?
Wednesday, 01 July 2020
Supplying coffeeshops with cannabis is illegal, so this is being done through a complicated ‘back-door’ policy. There might be a change coming with the start of the ‘controlled cannabis supply chain ...
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Netherlands to open applications for cannabis grow experiment next month
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
The Dutch government will start accepting applications in July from potential cultivators for its adult-use cannabis experiment. From July 1 until July 28, companies will be able to apply to grow adu ...
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Government reveals cannabis referendum legalisation details
Friday, 01 May 2020
Proposed cannabis legalisation will ban items designed to appeal to young people, set a four-year prison term for selling to under 20-year-olds and allow cannabis 'coffee shops' to open. The Governme ...
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Dutch marijuana back on sale, but don't forget to wash your hands
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
While most of the Netherlands struggles through the coronavirus lockdown, marijuana smokers received the welcome news that “coffee shops” selling the drug have reopened for takeaway orders. All busin ...
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Cannabis cafes can offer takeaways to head off the return of street dealers
Monday, 16 March 2020
Dutch cannabis cafes, or coffee shops, have been told they can open their doors for ‘takeaway’ deals, a day after the government ordered them shut until April 6 as part of the coronavirus clampdown. ...
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Amsterdam to crack down on weed tourism and coffeeshops
Friday, 14 February 2020
Amsterdam is exploring how to make cannabis less of a tourist attraction and, at the same time, crack down on the illegal supply chain, according to a briefing from mayor Femke Halsema. The city has ...
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High time: Netherlands moves to clean up absurd cannabis policy
Thursday, 06 February 2020
If there’s one contradiction that goes to the heart of why Dutch drugs policy has lost its way, it’s this: that while it’s legal for “coffee shops” to sell cannabis for personal consumption, growing ...
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Dutch fear making a hash of cannabis reform
Thursday, 05 December 2019
The Netherlands has long been a mecca for buzz-seeking tourists on account of its lax cannabis laws. What many of them don't know is that cannabis is not — and has never been — legal in the country. ...
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Green light: ten towns named for legalised cannabis-growing experiment
Thursday, 29 August 2019
One in seven Dutch coffee shops is set to join an experiment where for the first time cannabis growing is to be regulated. Justice minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus and health minister Bruno Bruins name ...
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Almere, Breda and Tilburg set to join regulated marijuana experiment
Wednesday, 28 August 2019
The Dutch government will press ahead with trials of regulated marijuana production with the maximum 10 cities when the experiment starts in 2021. The experiment is part of the current government’s c ...
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Big Dutch cities, coffee shops say no to regulated marijuana trials
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
A handful of the Netherlands’ medium sized cities have come forward to take part in the government’s controversial regulated marijuana experiment but the five biggest cities have all said no, the Vol ...
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Eindhoven says no to regulated marijuana experiment
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Eindhoven has followed The Hague and Amsterdam and decided not to take part in the government’s experiment with regulated marijuana cultivation, saying it cannot accept the terms and conditions for t ...
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The Hague says no to regulated marijuana trials, criticises rules
Thursday, 16 May 2019
The Hague has followed Amsterdam and decided not to take part in the experiment with regulated marijuana cultivation, saying the plan is unworkable. ‘We consider the conditions are not sufficiently p ...
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Netherlands prepares legal recreational cannabis cultivation experiment
Thursday, 09 May 2019
The Netherlands is laying the groundwork to become the first country in Europe to allow commercial production of adult-use marijuana – although initially the program would be considered an “experimen ...
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BBC documentary exposes hashish farmers’ vulnerability and officials' alleged involvement
Friday, 26 April 2019
A BBC Arabic documentary tried to answer a daring question on hash cultivation in Morocco. Entitled Who is Getting Rich from Moroccan Hash?, the project investigated «the production, consumption and ...
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Dutch ministers unveil marijuana plans
Thursday, 11 April 2019
The Dutch government is to press ahead with experiments in regulated marijuana production involving 10 licenced growers, according to the detailed plans. The long-awaited experiment with regulated gr ...
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Dutch weed experiment: The ongoing fight to regulate famed coffee shops
Friday, 11 January 2019
When the Dutch government announced in October 2017 plans for an experiment with regulated cannabis production to supply the country’s famous coffee shops, the cannabis industry cautiously welcomed t ...
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Harm reduction is the right way to treat drug abuse
Saturday, 24 November 2018
Portugal’s policies are based on “harm reduction” approaches pioneered in countries such as Switzerland in the 1980s. The idea is to emphasise treatment and prevention more than punishment, says Bren ...
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Dutch municipalities dissatisfied with regulated cannabis experiment
Friday, 23 November 2018
Many Dutch municipalities are dissatisfied with the current preliminary design of the government's experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation. Where municipalities queued to participate in the ex ...
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What the Dutch can teach the world about cannabis
Friday, 26 October 2018
On October 17, Canada became the first large economy to legalise recreational weed. (Uruguay blazed the trail in 2013.) From November 1, doctors can prescribe medical pot on Britain’s National Health ...
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Amsterdam calls plan for regulated cannabis cultivation unfeasible, dangerous
Wednesday, 03 October 2018
Amsterdam finds the national experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation unfeasible and "risky to public order". The municipality would like to participate in the experiment, but only with other r ...
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Pays-Bas : Le haschich marocain s’invite à la Chambre basse
Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Le trafic et la commercialisation du cannabis marocain aux Pays-Bas sont actuellement étudiés par les partis politiques néerlandais. Plusieurs propositions ont été faites, l’une d’elle serait d’en di ...
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Luxembourg debates legalising cannabis for recreational use
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Luxembourg politicians contemplated legalising cannabis, after a public petition garnered enough signatures to prompt a parliamentary debate. The petition, which called for the drug to be legalised f ...
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Smoke rings: more councils volunteer for cannabis growing trial
Friday, 06 July 2018
Municipalities in the Netherlands have signed up to a mooted four-year trial in legally growing cannabis for the first time. The new coalition agreement said that the policy would be tested in six to ...
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Regulated marijuana trial should be bigger
Thursday, 21 June 2018
The government’s plans to experiment with regulated marijuana cultivation should be carried out far more widely than in just six to 10 local authority areas, the government commission working on the ...
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French government ‘to close’ newly opened Paris cannabis coffee shops
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Along with the UK, France has among the strictest laws on Cannabis in western Europe, but despite this, huge queues have formed over the past few weeks at Paris’s new “Cofyshop” – the first place in ...
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