Amsterdam - The way a special Task Force fights the criminal cannabis cultivation in Brabant since a year should be an example for the rest of the Netherlands. This is what Minister Ivo Opstelten (Security and Justice) said Thursday in a meeting in the Lower House. In it, the police, municipalities, departments of the Public Ministry and the Tax wo...

Amsterdam - The Netherlands has an estimated 40,000 cannabis growers. This makes the Netherlands the list leader within Europe. The production is approximately a 2 billion euro profit. This is what is found from the figures of the police and the Task Force taking hold of organized cannabis. According to police, the marijuana cultivation has long lo...

Amsterdam- The city of Utrecht is sticking to the plan to permit cannabis clubs in the city. That is said in the progress report, which was sent to the city council on Thursday. The College wraps the clubs up as a scientific experiment. Utrecht wants to make growing marijuana legal by allowing a user group in the city. Its members adopt a few plant...

Amsterdam- The image of the Netherlands as a soft drugs paradise continues to go up in smoke. Next year, it will even be illegal for tourists to buy cannabis. Opposition to this measure is large. There has been much controversy about the so-called weed pass in recent months. Coffee shops are allowed to sell cannabis next year, but only if they tran...

Amsterdam- The controversial weed pass is not coming in a physical form. Instead of a separate pass, visitors of a coffee shop need to identity with a passport or driver's license in the future. The coffee shop owner himself/herself should keep a list of 'shop members'.This is said by spokeswoman Charlotte Menten of the Department of Security and J...

Amsterdam- The Maastricht fractions CDA, Senior Party Maastricht, VVD, Liberal Party Maastricht and the CVP ask Minister Opstelten CVP to no longer postpone the introduction of the weed pass / club card. In the coalition agreement, the agreement is set to reduce the number of coffee shops in the Netherlands. In this context, Minister Opstelten is w...

Amsterdam- The Netherlands is the European hemp country pre-eminently. With an estimated 40,000 home growers, we are on the top the list, papers headlines today. It is not surprising that Maastricht is a large weed paradise. There are plenty of 'shops' that sell the stuff in large quantities to mainly foreign drug tourists and there are suppliers o...

Amsterdam- While the Netherlands gets less tolerant with it's drug policy other countries introduce a more flexible drug policy. This summer the Global Commission on Drug Policy complimented the Dutch for their pragmatic drug policy. It is totally different now. Other countries think they can not win the war on drugs and that a solution lies within...

Amsterdam- By making strong hashish and weed a hard drug, these THC resources will be sold on the black market. Crime on cannabis will drastically increase. The user will be exposed to other harder drugs.This is a warning from the English professor in psychiatry and neuropharmacology ,David Nutt during a hearing in the Dutch parliament about the Du...

The Hague- Strong marijuana and hashish becoming hard drugs. It is all about the marijuana which contains more than 15% of the substance THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol). This means that these marijuana strains can no longer go over the coffeshop counter.This proposal is on the agenda of the Dutch cabinet, confirmed initiates this wednesday. Earlier a co...

Amsterdam- The French who were dismissed at the entrance of coffeeshops in Maastricht responded disappointed and angry on the new measure of the shops. The Maastricht coffeeshops refuse everyone who does not live in the Netherlands, Germany or Belgium." Cést le fascisme" (it is fascism!), shouted an angry Frenchman at the doorman of coffeeshop Easy...

Amsterdam- In order to exterminate marijuana growing operations the Royal Canadian Mounted Police held their annually marijuana extermination activity. They did that in coorperation with their Marijuana Grow Op Enforcement team

Amsterdam - The world wide war against drugs is a complete failure. Therefor should some drugs, like marijuana, should be legalized everywhere. These are the findings of former world leaders and politicians, including former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.This global commission on drug policy pr...

Amsterdam - Dutch coffeeshops will only be accessible with a weed pass. Minister of safety and justice ivo opstelten kills dutch marijuana tolerance policy and drives tourists to the streets and to hard drugs.

Amsterdam, Chace Crawford has made an agreement in court for the possession of marijuana. If the gossip girl actor avoids contact with the law for one year he won't get a criminal record.

Amsterdam (nl): The highest state court of massachusetts decided that the smell of cannabis is not a reason anymore to order a person out of his or her car because marijuana possession has been "tolerated" in Massachusetts (usa).After an appeal submitted by lawyers defending Benjamin Cruz from Boston.

Amsterdam, Secretary Fred Teeven (political party vvd, safety and Justice) wants to introduce the dutch marijuana pass round the 1st of january 2012. With the introduction of these cannabis passes tourists will be banned (discriminated) from dutch coffeeshops. They will not be able to buy a joint or a bag of weed any more.

BEHRAMPORE, India: Police officers discovered 63 kg (138.891 LB)marijuana from an ambulance of an NGO Domkal Bikash Kendra at Hekampur in Domkal this Saturday morning.Police officers halted the ambulance after percepting what looked like 4 packs of robes. On searching, the packs showed marijuana.

It's a very weird situation; First one of its kind. There will be a hearing in the court of Canada, to determine whether The "Church of the Universe" will be permitted to cultivate and spread cannabis as a part of its sacred proceedings. It is strange situation in which there are 2 "reverends" held as accused for the dispension of Marijuana despite...

Drug catapults used for drug smuggling and trafficing, HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) Drug trafficers are using an medieval invention as a new way to move marijuana and cannabis across the border from Mexico to Arizona.The discovery of two "drug catapults" in the Mexican state of Sonora marks the latest twist in the cat-and-mouse game smugglers play wi...

Two separate drug seizures in Kenora, Candada. Kenora - Canada-In two different cases this week, Kenora Police have arrested and charged people with possession of a drug. On Tuesday, Feb. 1, while making a routine traffic stop on the Highway , officers from the Kenora Police detachment located in excess of 110 grams (3.88 ounces) of cannabis in a c...

All he wanted was some free legal information. Unfortunately for the 21-year-old Robert Michelson, he made the call to 911, instead of calling a lawyer. Now he is facing multiple drug charges, as a result.In a soundtape of a 911 call made Thursday night made available by the police, you can hear Michelson asking how in how much trouble he could get...