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Is Spain thinking about legalizing cannabis to obtain more tax?

Amsterdam- On Thursday, there was a strange debate in the Spanish Parliament with the Minister of Justice Alberto Ruiz Gallardón present at that time. The debate was in fact about whether or not to legalize marijuana to generate more much needed tax revenue. The minister was asked this question by some MPs on Thursday, and the response of the minis...

Minister Opstelten explores small scale cannabis cultivation

Amsterdam- Minister Ivo Opstelten is identifying which municipalities have plans to regulate marijuana cultivation and has promised to investigate small-scale cannabis cultivation in Europe and the U.S. He says so in response to questions asked in the House. Several Brabant municipalities, including Tilburg and Eindhoven, would like to have the abi...

Court also agrees with restrictions on selling weed

Amsterdam- Again, coffee shop owners from the south of the country come away empty-handed from court: that is, the court thinks it should continue to be forbidden to sell weed to drugs tourists. According to the court, the state has good reasons to limit the size of coffeeshops and to combat marijuana tourism this way. The court in The Hague has al...

Cannabis tourist remains welcome in Amsterdam

Amsterdam- Foreign tourists remain welcome in Amsterdam coffee shops for the time being. This is what Minister Opstelten has said following the decision of the municipality to ban smoking weed from schools. The ban applies to schoolyards of high schools and vocational schools. Amsterdam has already said several times that tourists should continue t...

Opstelten happy with Amsterdam policies against smoking weed

Amsterdam- Minister Ivo Opstelten (Security and Justice) is satisfied with the policies against smoking weed for young people that the city of Amsterdam has announced. "The municipality realizes the policy exactly the way I have imagined," he has said on Wednesday. Amsterdam implements a ban on smoking weed in schoolyards...

Weed more legal in America than in the Netherlands

Amsterdam- It might become quiet on the streets of Amsterdam. An important group of tourists does not have to get out of its own country anymore to obtain weed legally. Who is this illustrious group of stoners? Well, they are those oh so conservative Americans. Because over there, weed is legalized for the first time in their history. Across Americ...

Abolition of weed pass mere formality

Amsterdam- The coffeeshops in Maastricht call the abolition of the weed pass a mere formality. According to chairperson Josemans of the Association of Official coffeeshops Maastricht, very little changes because customers must show identification and an extract from the municipal population register. what measures are effective,' according to Opste...

Municipality can fill out approach coffeeshop itself

Amsterdam- Municipalities may determine their policy on coffeeshops and drug nuisance. In addition, the much debated weed pass is immediately abolished. This is what Minister Ivo Opstelten writes in a letter to the Lower House on Monday. For the whole country, it will apply that visitors of coffeeshops must prove that they live in the Netherlands b...

Amsterdam coffeeshops remain open for tourists

Amsterdam- Tourists can keep visiting the 220 coffee shops in Amsterdam, even if they are not Dutch residents. Mayor Van der Laan confirms this in the Volkskrant based on the coalition agreement of the new cabinet. For over a year, he has been in a conversation on the impact of the new policy on soft drugs in Amsterdam with Minister Opstelten of Se...

Amsterdam mayor Van der Laan has not gotten permission from Opstelten

Amsterdam- Mayor Van der Laan has received no permission to allow tourists in coffee shops after January 1st at all. That is what a representative of Minister Ivo Opstelten of Security and Justice has said. He says that the mayor of Amsterdam is premature with his conclusion, according to the NOS. This morning, Van der Laan has said in De Volkskran...

The weed pass is good for gentlemen thugs from Maasje

Amsterdam- Much is said about the streets of Maastricht. The weed pass, that was introduced on 1 May, would make those streets much less safe according to the inhabitants of the city. According to politicians, however, it only makes the streets safer! I went to Maastricht for a day to learn more, and also to let the people speak that the mainstream...

Sufficient support for more stringent policy on soft drugs

Amsterdam- Debate - Minister Opstelten (Safety) advocates a vigorous approach to drug-related nuisance and crime. Minister Schippers (Health) seeks to prevent young people from wasting their lives. Van der Steur (VVD), Çörüz (CDA) and Elissen (PVV) support the reassessment of the soft drugs policy. Limit the coffeeshops to where they originally wer...

Weed pass may worsen drug nuisanc

Amsterdam- The inhabitants of Hoorn had already been looking forward to it: no more traffic jams in the city, no more minors asking them to buy hashish or marijuana for them. The two coffee shops in the center would make room for one large one, on the outskirts of the city. The operation was even included in the 2010 coalition agreement. But the na...

Utrecht continues marijuana experiment

Amsterdam- The municipality of Utrecht continues with the plans to let marijuana users grow cannabis legally within closed clubs. This is what responsible alderman Victor Everhardt said Wednesday morning. Previously, Minister of Justice Ivo Opstelten and a parliament majority expressed strong criticism on the plan for this experiment.Utrecht wants ...

Cannabis of 4200 year old in tomb Hanzelijn (Netherlands)

Amsterdam- In a Stone Age tomb detected near the Gelderland Hattemerbroek, over 4200 years old cannabis is probably found. The Dutch cannabis is probably used medicinally due to the pain-relieving effect, just like what is happening again nowadays. It is almost certain that it is about cannabis pollen. In that case, these would be found in the Neth...

Rush expected because of weed pass

Amsterdam- Municipalities in the south of the Netherlands can expect large crowds at the population register. Blowers need an extract for a weed pass. Municipalities in the south of the country can expect tens of thousands of applications in total for extracts from the population register starting next week. Soft drug users need the latest extract ...

Alarm for coffeeshop cartels

Amsterdam- In Limburg, it is feared that coffeeshops in Roermond, Hoensbroek, Sittard-Geleen and Venlo will get in the hands of one party. Following this, a nationwide investigation is started. Mayor Henk van Beers of Roermond explained a letter about this in a meeting of the North and Central Limburg mayors, police and justice Friday. In Roermond,...

Mayor Rehwinkel wants no weed pass in Groningen

Amsterdam- A survey on the weed pass of the NOS shows that municipalities reluctantly enter the weed pass. For the survey, 31 municipalities were contacted: border communities, provincial capitals and the four major cities. 26 municipalities replied. Groningen is one of the municipalities that have not responded to the survey, but that expressed it...

Cannabis addicts are not to be found at the emergency room or intensive care in the weekend

Amsterdam- While they in political The Hague worry about weed passes and hashish prohibitions, health facilities are filling up with GHB addicts. 'The drug debate is not sharp and outdated.' Weed pass this, hashish ban that. Regulate this, tolerate that. No coffeeshops near schools, kindergartens and nurseries. Or exactly the opposite. You stumble ...

Spanish cannabis clubs are no Dutch coffeeshops

Amsterdam- The Spanish government launched an investigation on the cultivation of marijuana in the country. Madrid reacts to the decision of a village near Barcelona to grow marijuana to raise money for the municipal treasury. The weed is for a private club of users, 'not comparable to the Dutch model.’ The Spanish cannabis clubs have no pecuniary ...

Coffeeshop employees threatened with redundancy set up together to the UWV

Amsterdam- About sixty employees of Maastricht coffee shops have collectively reported at the UWV this morning in Maastricht to get attention to the fact that they will be redundant as of May 1st, along with 300 other Maastricht colleagues. The resignation wave in the coffeeshop industry is the result of the introduction of the weed pass that Minis...

Weed pass the end for good old Amsterdam coffeeshop

Amsterdam- As of May 1st, all coffee shops below the rivers should 'become private clubs, with compulsory membership list, weed pass and registration of private data.’ Monday, the Tilburg council committee takes a look into this. Much has been said and written about this plan of administration Rutte 1; please note that the motto chosen is "Fre...

Dutch drug policy and discussion on it made on basis of false assumptions

Amsterdam- The Dutch drug policy and the discussion on it has long been based on false assumptions. Today, the ministers and the right wing of the Parliament are happy to continue that. What are the words of the Government, MPs of CDA, VVD and PVV and the police about soft drugs worth? Nothing, we can plainly say. In recent weeks, several studies a...

Top lawyer Spong also sees no benefit in weed pass

Amsterdam- During the council meeting, there is a political call for a test case on the legal feasibility of the weed pass. D66, PvdA, Groenlinks, SBM, SP and PvM have already pledged their support to a motion raised about this during the council meeting. In that motion, the politicians ask the college to implement a test trial against one of the f...

Maastricht wants test trial on weed pass

Amsterdam- During the council meeting, there is a political call for a test case on the legal feasibility of the weed pass. D66, PvdA, Groenlinks, SBM, SP and PvM have already pledged their support to a motion raised about this during the council meeting. In that motion, the politicians ask the college to implement a test trial against one of the f...

Catalan village seeks salvation in marijuana cultivation

Amsterdam- The Catalan village Rasquera wants to keep head above water during the economic crisis by leasing land for cannabis cultivation. The council has adopted a proposal for this with four votes to three Wednesday night, a proposal for adoption. The central government has announced to intervene when the first seeds are put into the ground. Ras...

Political party VVD questions strong weed control

Amsterdam- The VVD sees a problem with the control by coffee shops on the sale of too strong weed. The government does not allow this anymore, but the coffee shop owner cannot easily control how strong the weed is that he gets delivered. According VVD MP Ard van der Steur, there is equipment with which the coffee shop owner can measure how strong h...

Where to buy marijuana in the Netherlands without a Dutch weed pass

Amsterdam- Dear visitor, During the last few weeks, there is confusion about whether foreign tourists are or are not allowed to buy weed or hashish in the Netherlands. We would like to answer this question. Where are you welcome and where not? Since the first of May, a weed pass is needed for 3 southern provinces of the Netherlands. These 3 provinc...

Control weed pass not a priority

Amsterdam- Checking the coffee shops for their compliance with the rules surrounding the weed pass gets no priority in Den Bosch. Mayor Rombouts writes this in a letter to the council committee administrative affairs. Spearheads of the Bossche policy on the coffeeshops have always been nuisance, youth and hard drugs; it will remain this way.

Dutch soft drugs policy government disaster

Amsterdam- The JOVD Heart of Brabant, Tilburg’s department of the independent liberal youth organization JOVD, criticizes the naivety of Mayor Noordanus. The young liberals respond to the article of the Mayor on the website of the Brabants Dagblad. Here, the mayor suggests that by the introduction of the weed pass, no increase in illegal street tra...
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