Items tagged with amsterdam
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As the mayor of Amsterdam, I can see the Netherlands risks becoming a narco-state [05.01.2024] | In the Netherlands, we used to look on the international “war on drugs” with a certain amount of disdain. Its solutions were prohibition, criminalisa ... |
Tilburg and Breda to kick off regulated marijuana experiment [22.02.2023] | 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 ... |
Amsterdam to outlaw cannabis-smoking in red-light district streets [10.02.2023] | 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 d ... |
Amsterdam mayor wants Europe to decriminalize cocaine: “War on drugs isn’t working [07.10.2022] | Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema believes that Europe should decriminalize the sale of cocaine, like various countries already allow the sale of cannabi ... |
Amsterdam council to vote against banning tourists from coffeeshops [30.09.2022] | Amsterdam council will vote against a proposal to enforce a national ban against tourists in coffeeshops, where cannabis is smoked. Mayor Femke Halse ... |
Banning tourists from cannabis cafes will cut back on crime: Halsema [25.06.2022] | Amsterdam’s cannabis cafes are often intertwined with serious crime and play a serious role in money laundering, the capital’s mayor Femke Halsema ha ... |
Street dealers dealt with in Amsterdam anti-drug campaign [23.04.2022] | As tourists return in full force to the Amsterdam red light district, Amsterdam city council has met them with police action and a campaign warning v ... |
Cannabis entrepreneurs in Amsterdam feel "ignored" by Mayor Halsema [12.04.2022] | Several entrepreneurs in the Amsterdam cannabis industry said they feel ignored by Mayor Femke Halsema. They said they were surprised by Halsema’s an ... |
Amsterdam to ban coffeeshops selling weed to tourists [12.04.2022] | 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. Ac ... |
Experts warn that keeping tourists out of Amsterdam coffee shops won’t be easy [26.05.2021] | Suggestions that foreign tourists be banned from Amsterdam’s cannabis cafes, or coffee shops, have been greeted with alarm by experts. ‘The plan is d ... |
Tough local drug law enforcement ‘making innocent people homeless’ [14.05.2021] | Tough anti-drug enforcement is making innocent citizens and children homeless, according to ombudsmen in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. Each yea ... |
Mayor: no more weed for tourists in Amsterdam [12.01.2021] | The mayor is taking steps to change Amsterdam's image as the international cannabis capital. Coffeeshops attracted an estimated 1.5 million tourist v ... |
Blown off: Amsterdam will ban foreign tourists from coffeeshops in future [08.01.2021] | Foreign tourists will be banned from coffeeshops in Amsterdam in future. In a letter to the council, mayor Femke Halsema, the public prosecution serv ... |
Residents-only rule for coffeeshops proposed in Amsterdam [25.09.2020] | Amsterdam city council is gearing up for a new discussion on banning non-residents from its coffeeshops next month, after two new proposals were subm ... |
Cannabis cafes can offer takeaways to head off the return of street dealers [16.03.2020] | 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 un ... |
Amsterdam to crack down on weed tourism and coffeeshops [14.02.2020] | 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 ... |
Drugs researchers: ‘No such thing as victimless cocaine’ [01.10.2019] | Together with prevention worker Judith Noijen of the Jellinek Clinic, crimninologist Ton Nabben published the 25th edition of Antenne, a large-scale ... |
A new ‘war on drugs’ is short sighted and naive [16.09.2019] | Forty years ago, the Netherlands was far ahead of its time. But today we see the country moving backwards, as evidenced by a recent report on the dru ... |
Almere, Breda and Tilburg set to join regulated marijuana experiment [28.08.2019] | The Dutch government will press ahead with trials of regulated marijuana production with the maximum 10 cities when the experiment starts in 2021. Th ... |
Amsterdam wants to participate in regulated cannabis experiment [12.10.2018] | Amsterdam has to participate in the national experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation. If the Dutch capital, with the largest coffeeshop market ... |
Amsterdam calls plan for regulated cannabis cultivation unfeasible, dangerous [03.10.2018] | Amsterdam finds the national experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation unfeasible and "risky to public order". The municipality would like to pa ... |
Amsterdam’s ‘oldest’ cannabis cafe closes because of school rule [30.12.2016] | An Amsterdam coffeeshop which can trace its roots back to 1973 will open for the last time because of city rules preventing the sale of marijuana clo ... |
Amsterdam Mayor: experiment to regulate cannabis cultivation currently legally impossible [28.05.2015] | End 2014 Van der Laan told the council to examine possibilities for regulated cannabis cultivation. The municipality would appoint companies to legal ... |
First ‘ecstasy’ shop opens in Amsterdam [19.05.2015] | A Dutch political movement is calling for the legalization of the psychoactive drug ecstasy – and has opened a shop to promote its cause. The youth w ... |
D.C. vs. Amsterdam: The Dutch strike back! [25.02.2015] | When Mayor Muriel E. Bowser delivered her legalized marijuana guidelines, she tried to ease concerns of naysayers with promises that there are enough ... |
Amsterdam city council calls for licenced marijuana production [07.11.2014] | Ministers should sanction experiments to legally grow marijuana under licence and the city should make preparations to do so, according to a majority ... |
Amsterdam to impose ban on smoking cannabis on school property [12.12.2012] | Amsterdam's mayor said he would formally ban students from smoking cannabis at school, making the city in the Netherlands the first to do so. Eberhar ... |
Amsterdam will not ban tourists from coffee shops, says mayor [01.11.2012] | Tourists can continue to use Amsterdam’s 220 cannabis cafes, even if they are not resident in the Netherlands, the Volkskrant quotes the capital’s ma ... |
High time: inside Amsterdam's 'coffee shops' [20.10.2011] | Accessibility has made most Dutch indifferent to smoking weed, and ironically, the Netherlands has one of Europe's lowest rates of cannabis usage. A ... |
Amsterdam's 'no toking' signs set to become more of a collector's item after legal setback [13.07.2011] | After an only-in-the-Netherlands legal reverse, the city of Amsterdam will likely have to stub out the "no toking" signs it introduced in a crackdown ... |
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