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  • Closed shops

    Thursday, 23 June 2011

    In a rolling process, Dutch "coffee shops", where cannabis is freely sold for private consumption, could soon become closed clubs. New government rules may force some 660 coffee shops that now sell ca ...

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  • Netherlands: Pot shops to be off limits to foreign tourists

    Monday, 06 June 2011

    The Netherlands plans to ban foreign visitors from pot shops in a move that opponents have labeled "tourism suicide." The Dutch government is trying to stop drug tourism in the country, according to a ...

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  • The future of Dutch cannabis policy

    Monday, 14 March 2011

    The municipality of the Dutch city of Utrecht recently announced two scientific experiments on cannabis policy. One experiment will be to set up a closed club model for adult recreational cannabis us ...

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  • Court backs Dutch ruling on coffee shops

    Thursday, 16 December 2010

    The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said that a municipal regulation imposed by the city of Maastricht prohibiting local coffee-shop owners from admitting non-residents of the Netherlands was justifi ...

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  • Non-residents in the Netherlands and access to coffee-shops

    Thursday, 16 December 2010

    Under the 1976 Law on opium (Opiumwet 1976), the possession, dealing, cultivation, transportation, production, import and export of narcotic drugs, including cannabis and its derivatives, are prohibi ...

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  • Liberal Dutch marijuana policy taking another hit?

    Thursday, 18 November 2010

    The new conservative Dutch government wants to force the country's marijuana cafes to become "members only" clubs, a move that would effectively block foreigners from buying the drug. If the idea eve ...

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  • Dutch coffee shops fear coalition crackdown

    Monday, 01 November 2010

    The traditional Dutch tolerance of the sale of small amounts of marijuana through licensed "coffee shops" is under severe strain. On 14 October a new coalition government was sworn in. Part of the co ...

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  • The promise of legalization

    Saturday, 16 October 2010

    People on both sides of the marijuana legalization debate have strong feelings about Proposition 19, the California ballot initiative that promises to regulate, control and tax cannabis. But science ...

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  • Kerlikowske draws the wrong conclusions

    Monday, 16 August 2010

    In "Has the time come to legalize drugs?" Andres Oppenheimer, the influential opinion maker about Latin American affairs at the Miami Herald, describes how the debate about cannabis regulation "is ra ...

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  • Ending drug prohibition: the ultimate austerity measure

    Tuesday, 18 May 2010

    The ban on recreational drugs promotes crime and is bad for public health. Austerity measures to cut public spending are a hot topic for debate everywhere in Europe. In the Netherlands, where a new p ...

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  • Former ministers: legalise all drugs!

    Tuesday, 18 May 2010

    'Save the country, legalise drugs.' Under this striking banner, two former Dutch government ministers (for foreign affairs and health) are launching their revolutionary plan. They estimate that more ...

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  • European court weighs cannabis ban for foreigners

    Sunday, 02 May 2010

    A Dutch city has banned foreigners from its cannabis selling coffee shops. A European court will now decide whether this is legal. The continuing struggle of Dutch border towns against drug tourism c ...

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  • Regulating cannabis could help cut Dutch state deficit

    Tuesday, 13 April 2010

    Decriminalizing cannabis in the Netherlands and regulating the back-door of the coffee-shops and cultivation of cannabis would save 160 million euro on expenses by the police and the criminal justice ...

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  • Coffee shop owner sentenced for running criminal organisation

    Wednesday, 24 March 2010

    The owner of the Netherlands' largest cannabis-selling coffee shop was convicted for running a criminal organisation that purchased large quantities of drugs and processed and stored them. Meddy Will ...

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  • MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely

    Friday, 15 January 2010

    The Copenhagen City Council’s plan to set up shops selling cannabis as a way to remove the market from the control of gangs is not likely to be embraced enthusiastically in parliament, according to a ...

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  • Council may enter drug trade

    Thursday, 24 September 2009

    A City Council majority is backing a plan to legalise the sale of cannabis, which could see two thirds of the market taken away from criminal gangs. A memorandum drawn up by council staff, is proposi ...

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  • Committee wants coffee shops to cater to locals only

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    Limit the sale of cannabis to local users, reconsider the distinction between hard and soft drugs, raise the legal age for drinking alcohol from 16 to 18 and appoint a drug czar to overlook policies. ...

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  • Drug Policy Reform in Practice

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009
    Drug Policy Reform in Practice

    The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the article Drug policy reform in practice: Experienc ...

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  • Evaluation of Dutch Drug Policy

    Sunday, 31 May 2009
    Evaluation of Dutch Drug Policy

    The main purpose of this evaluation was to determine to what extent the principal goal of Dutch drug policy has been achieved, as stated in the 1995 Policy Document on Drugs (Drugsnota). This asserts ...

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  • Coffee shop trial is test for Dutch drugs policy

    Monday, 16 March 2009

    The owner and several employees of the biggest coffee shop in the Netherlands are being prosecuted for membership of a criminal organisation. The outcome of the trial can have a huge impact on soft d ...

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  • Banks told to accept cannabis cafe customers

    Friday, 06 February 2009

    Banks must accept cafes which sell cannabis and marijuana as clients, says finance minister Wouter Bos. The minister fears that if these businesses, known as coffee shops, are refused bank accounts t ...

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  • Smoking without Borders

    Tuesday, 13 January 2009

    Cannabis license The Hungarian Civil Liberty Union (HCLU) produced a video on the debate on cannabis policy and the tolerated sale of small quantities of cannabis by coffee shops in the Netherlands. ...

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  • Dutch mayors call for growing marijuana

    Sunday, 23 November 2008

    The Dutch government should licence the growing and supply of marijuana to the country’s 700 or so coffee shops that sell cannabis, according to a group of around 30 Dutch mayors. This is the conclus ...

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  • Local councils support tolerant cannabis policy

    Tuesday, 18 November 2008

    Most of the Dutch local councils that have so-called coffee shops which sell marijuana say they have no problem with the current policy of tolerating these outlets, according to a survey by NRC Hande ...

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  • Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

    Monday, 01 September 2008
    Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate

    Despite cannabis being the most widely used illegal drug, and therefore the mainstay of the ‘war on drugs’, it has only ever held a relatively marginal position in international drug policy discussio ...

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  • Costa in Amsterdam

    Monday, 02 June 2008

    The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Costa, recently visited Amsterdam on 24 April. Accompanied by some officials of the Netherlands Ministry of Health and of the City of Ams ...

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  • Invitational Conference Cannabis Policy

    Wednesday, 12 December 2007

    TNI co-signed a letter that was sent to the Dutch Prime Minister and relevant parliamentary commissions, stressing the need for an active Dutch involvement in the UNGASS review process and specifical ...

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  • "Achterdeur open U"

    Thursday, 09 February 2006

    Het Nederlandse cannabisbeleid verkeert al decennia in een internationaalrechtelijke schemerzone, stelt Martin Jelsma van het Transnational Institute (TNI). Nederland gedoogt de verkoop van kleine ho ...

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  • Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes

    Wednesday, 31 January 2001
    Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes

    Cannabis is the cutting-edge drug for reform, the only politically plausible candidate for major legal change, at least decriminalisation (removal of criminal penalties for possession) and pe ...

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  • Cannabis use, a stepping stone to other drugs?

    Tuesday, 31 December 1996
    Cannabis use, a stepping stone to other drugs?

    Does smoking reefer lead to using other drugs, in daily practice usually described as cocaine and heroin? Raising the possibility that the answer to this question might be affirmative, is known as th ...

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