Shops in 2 Dutch cities start selling legally grown cannabis in an experiment to regulate pot trade
1 year ago

Shops in 2 Dutch cities start selling legally grown cannabis in an experiment to regulate pot trade

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A paradox at the heart of the Netherlands' permissive pot policy went up in smoke Friday in two Dutch cities as “coffeeshops” began selling the country's first legally cultivated cannabis as part of an experiment to regulate the trade. “In addition, we can better inform consumers about the effects and health risks of cannabis use.” A trailblazer in decriminalizing pot since the 1970s, the Netherlands has grown more conservative. Breda Mayor Paul Depla said the initial experiment in his city and Tilburg would help detect any “growing pains” in the system. “We think it's important that people who use cannabis are well informed about the risks and options for help,” spokeswoman Harriëtte Koop said in an email.

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Legal marijuana only on sale in 10 Dutch towns from next April
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Legal marijuana only on sale in 10 Dutch towns from next April

Dutch News  

The 10 Dutch cities that are taking part in the ongoing regulated marijuana experiment will only have legally-produced types of the soft drug on sale from April next year. Justice minister David van Weel said on Tuesday that the green light had been given for the experiment to continue and that means 10 towns and cities will say goodbye to …

Regulated cannabis supply chain experiment to enter new phase in April 2025
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Regulated cannabis supply chain experiment to enter new phase in April 2025

NL Times  

Starting April 7, 2025, coffee shops in ten Dutch municipalities participating in the regulated cannabis supply chain experiment will be required to sell only cannabis products sourced from official, licensed growers. Since June 2024, coffee shops in Breda, Tilburg, and eight additional municipalities—Groningen, Zaanstad, Almere, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Voorne aan Zee, Heerlen, and Maastricht—have been allowed to sell both regulated and …

California will allow eating, drinking and smoking at Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes
3 months, 1 week ago

California will allow eating, drinking and smoking at Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes

LA Times  

Patrons enjoy a joint at a restaurant and cannabis bar in West Hollywood, which is allowed to operate through a license issued by the city. “Cannabis cafes are going to be a huge part of the future of cannabis in our state and help to beat back the illegal drug market,” said Assemblymember Matt Haney, who authored the bill. The …

California lawmakers pass bill allowing Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes
4 months, 1 week ago

California lawmakers pass bill allowing Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes

LA Times  

Patrons enjoy a joint at a restaurant and cannabis bar in West Hollywood, which is allowed to operate through a license issued by the city. Gavin Newsom signs Assembly Bill 1775, cities in the Golden State would have the leeway to permit so-called “cannabis cafes,” which could sell food and nonalcoholic beverages and host live music and other performances. Assemblymember …

Majority of Dutch in favor of legalized cannabis cultivation, sales
9 months ago

Majority of Dutch in favor of legalized cannabis cultivation, sales

NL Times  

Six in ten Netherlands residents believe that the production, supply, and sale of cannabis and hashish should be legal. It is currently prohibited to grow cannabis, and growers are also not allowed to supply coffee shops, but the government tolerates the sale. For a while, it was uncertain whether the project would continue at all, because the PVV wanted to …

Germany gives controversial green light to cannabis
9 months, 1 week ago

Germany gives controversial green light to cannabis

The Hindu  

Cannabis aficionados lit up in Germany on April 1, as the country became the largest EU nation to legalise recreational use, despite fierce objections from opposition politicians and medical associations. The new law was "better for real addiction help, prevention for children and young people and for combating the black market," Lauterbach said, responding in part to criticisms levelled against …

Pot sales approved for events in New York after farmers complain there are too few dispensaries
1 year, 5 months ago

Pot sales approved for events in New York after farmers complain there are too few dispensaries

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Marijuana can legally be sold at festivals and other events in New York under a measure approved by state regulators Wednesday, after farmers complained that there are too few dispensaries to sell what they harvest. The initiative approved by the Cannabis Control Board will allow three or more growers to partner with retailers for consumer sales outside …

Dutch cannabis policy example of 'how not to do it', says German minister
1 year, 8 months ago

Dutch cannabis policy example of 'how not to do it', says German minister

Dutch News  

Germany is legalising cannabis use, with the Dutch policy as an example ‘of how not to do it’, German health minister Karl Lauterbach has told broadcaster NOS. Coffee shops, where the Dutch can buy cannabis in limited quantities for private use, are not part of the German plans which include allowing people to grow their own small amount of cannabis …

Dutch cannabis policy example of 'how not to do it', says German minister
1 year, 8 months ago

Dutch cannabis policy example of 'how not to do it', says German minister

Dutch News  

Germany is legalising cannabis use, with the Dutch policy as an example ‘of how not to do it’, German health minister Karl Lauterbach has told broadcaster NOS. Coffee shops, where the Dutch can buy cannabis in limited quantities for private use, are not part of the German plans which include allowing people to grow their own small amount of cannabis …

"How not to do it," German Minister says about Dutch approach to cannabis
1 year, 8 months ago

"How not to do it," German Minister says about Dutch approach to cannabis

NL Times  

“We took the Dutch model as an example of how not to do it,” German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach told NOS shortly after Germany announced its plans to legalize cannabis. “A combination of disadvantages.” Lautenbach said that his country doesn’t want anything like coffeeshops, with salespeople interested in selling as much cannabis as possible. “The goal of keeping people away …

Amsterdam BANS cannabis from its famous red light district
1 year, 10 months ago

Amsterdam BANS cannabis from its famous red light district

Daily Mail  

Restaurants and bars will have to close by 2am and sex workers' venues by 3am Amsterdam will soon ban cannabis from its famous red light district as part of new regulations by the city. The new laws, which were announced yesterday, will be in force from mid-May and aim to improve residents' quality of life as they have long complained …

New York hasn’t licensed any pot shops, yet they abound
2 years, 1 month ago

New York hasn’t licensed any pot shops, yet they abound

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Eager, anxious and frustrated, Yuri Krupitsky is waiting to find out whether he’ll get to open one of the first legal recreational marijuana shops in New York state. I’m sitting around waiting to do it the right way.” Under pressure to launch one of the nation’s most hotly anticipated legal marijuana markets, the state Cannabis Control Board …

Dutch marijuana growing experiment runs into more delays
2 years, 2 months ago

Dutch marijuana growing experiment runs into more delays

Dutch News  

Marijuana growers who have been selected to take part in the government’s controlled cultivation trials have told the cabinet that they will not be ready to start early next year as the government intends, the NRC reported on Thursday. Since then, however, the experiment has been beset by problems, not least of which was the refusal of any of the …

Dutch marijuana growing experiment runs into more delays
2 years, 2 months ago

Dutch marijuana growing experiment runs into more delays

Dutch News  

Marijuana growers who have been selected to take part in the government’s controlled cultivation trials have told the cabinet that they will not be ready to start early next year as the government intends, the NRC reported on Thursday. Since then, however, the experiment has been beset by problems, not least of which was the refusal of any of the …

Growers doubtful about Dutch gov't plan to start regulated cannabis experiment next year
2 years, 2 months ago

Growers doubtful about Dutch gov't plan to start regulated cannabis experiment next year

NL Times  

Five years after the Rutte III Cabinet added the regulated cannabis cultivation experiment to its coalition agreement, the Rutte IV Cabinet plans to start the experiment in the second quarter of next year. But the participating growers called that unfeasible in a letter sent to Ministers Ernst Kuipers of Public Health and Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius of Justice and Security, NRC reports. …

Netherlands' regulated cannabis experiment postponed again
2 years, 9 months ago

Netherlands' regulated cannabis experiment postponed again

NL Times  

The Netherlands' experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation has been delayed again. According to the Ministers, it is taking longer than expected to get to the point "when the quantity, quality, and diversity" of the legally grown cannabis is sufficient to supply the participating coffeeshops with enough stocks. The Ministers now hope to start the "transitioning phase" of the experiment in …

NY clamps down on businesses offering marijuana as a ‘gift’
2 years, 10 months ago

NY clamps down on businesses offering marijuana as a ‘gift’

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — While New York works on launching a legal market for recreational marijuana, some entrepreneurs dove into a legal gray area by saying they’re not selling pot but giving it away while people buy something else. “New York state is building a legal, regulated cannabis market that will ensure products are tested and safe for consumers” and will …

Dutch entrepreneurs can profit from German cannabis legalization
3 years, 1 month ago

Dutch entrepreneurs can profit from German cannabis legalization

NL Times  

Dutch entrepreneurs could also gain from Germany's plans to legalize cannabis. Drug researcher Nicole Maalsté told NU.nl she does not think Germany will be able to catch up to the Netherlands any time soon. "Weed suppliers and producers, who now partly operate on the black market, have gained a lot of knowledge about cannabis varieties and optimization of cultivation in …

Dutch legal cannabis cultivation trial stalled
3 years, 6 months ago

Dutch legal cannabis cultivation trial stalled

NL Times  

The Dutch pilot program to test the legalization of the production of cannabis could be delayed. Ten cities were set to take part on the pilot, set to kick off this autumn, but “too many uncertainties” remain, Arnhem Mayor Ahmed Marcouch wrote in a letter to city council. Marcouch explained that the growers needed more time to be able to …

Amsterdam Mayor, police want to ban foreign tourists from cannabis coffeeshops
4 years ago

Amsterdam Mayor, police want to ban foreign tourists from cannabis coffeeshops

NL Times  

Amsterdam wants to eventually ban foreign tourists from coffeeshops in the city. The Amsterdam collaboration of Mayor Femke Halsema, the district police and district office of the prosecution service have crafted a plan outlining their vision for the future of coffeeshops, with the prevention of tourists from entering them a key piece of the plan, according to a letter they …

149 cannabis growers sign up for government licensing test
4 years, 5 months ago

149 cannabis growers sign up for government licensing test

NL Times  

A total of 149 cannabis growers applied take part in the government's experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation. Cannabis growers had between July 1 and July 28 to fill out the government's application forms. However the government decided that every coffeeshop in participating cities would be required to only use licensed cannabis suppliers during the experiment. She expressed concern that attempting …

Exhausting, expensive and cruel – this is what it's like to travel abroad for medical cannabis
5 years, 2 months ago

Exhausting, expensive and cruel – this is what it's like to travel abroad for medical cannabis

The Independent  

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Netherlands-approved cannabis goes on sale from 2020 in plain wrappers
5 years, 3 months ago

Netherlands-approved cannabis goes on sale from 2020 in plain wrappers

NL Times  

The cannabis involved in the Netherlands' regulated cultivation experiment will be sold in "unattractive" and plain packaging. This is to make sure that people "who weren't planning" to use cannabis aren't tempted into trying it by interesting wrappers, NRC reports based on a proposal that contains the rules for the experiment. During the four-year experiment, all the coffeeshops in these …

A new ‘war on drugs’ is short sighted and naive
5 years, 3 months ago

A new ‘war on drugs’ is short sighted and naive

Dutch News  

When the Dutch government liberalised cannabis policy in 1976, they understood that the legalisation and regulation of cannabis was actually the best solution, or at least the least bad one. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, there have never been so many cannabis, cocaine, heroin and synthetic drugs on the market for such low prices or of higher …

A new ‘war on drugs’ is short sighted and naive
5 years, 3 months ago

A new ‘war on drugs’ is short sighted and naive

Dutch News  

When the Dutch government liberalised cannabis policy in 1976, they understood that the legalisation and regulation of cannabis was actually the best solution, or at least the least bad one. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, there have never been so many cannabis, cocaine, heroin and synthetic drugs on the market for such low prices or of higher …

Cannabis is a comedic mystery, but only as long as it’s a forbidden fruit
5 years, 3 months ago

Cannabis is a comedic mystery, but only as long as it’s a forbidden fruit

Deccan Chronicle  

“Being intolerant of intolerances And allergic to allergies He spent his time entangling himself In reflexive infinities. A skeptic of skepticism Negating double negatives He hoped in the depth of consciousness That infinity forgives” From Khadi Boli to Hyperbole by Bachchoo Mumbai, where I am for a few weeks, has been declared by statistical institutes as the city which consumes …

Medicinal cannabis users left high and dry by Dutch tolerance policy
5 years, 9 months ago

Medicinal cannabis users left high and dry by Dutch tolerance policy

Dutch News  

Many patients find cannabis calms their symptoms, eases pain and reduces the side-effects of other medication – but despite the relaxed attitude to marijuana in the Netherlands, acquiring this alternative medicine is often a battle. ‘The oil doesn’t affect me at all.’ Figures from the National Drugs Monitor estimate that Anat is one of around half a million people in …

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