Netherlands begins trial to make cannabis fully legal
Netherlands begins trial to make cannabis fully legal
Experiment aims to make production, supply and smoking legal and remove effects of gang involvement
Strange how it was known as the place where you could smoke or buy weed at coffee shops for years before the US was anywhere close and it’s still not legal there. I suppose it’s still not federally legal in the US either though.
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legaltolerated specifically in cafes, and Amsterdam even have several additional restrictions on top of that.This new trial seems to be much more regulated than current situation.
Source: https://www.amsterdam.nl/en/policy/policy-safety/policy-coffeeshops/
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And it took them only 40 years. So fast.
24The Netherlands is far less progressive than people think it is. Tolerating something is not the same as condoning or accepting it.
No one who knows the Netherlands was surprised by Wilders winning a lot of votes in the last election. No one who knows the Netherlands is surprised that it's taken this long to even think about legalising weed.
14Yup. There’s a reason it’s called “gedoogbeleid” and not “acceptatiebeleid”!
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Still not enough. We need the exact same regulation as in California or Nevada in Europe/World wide.
I’d like to purchase edibles and vapes legally as if I was in Las Vegas.
16Naw, I want real legalization like in Canada (BC in particular). Flying domestically with cannabis is a legally protected right in Canada. And public consumption is permitted anywhere tobacco use is. None of this 'in the privacy of your own home' bullshit that makes it impossible for tourists to technically consume legally.
Maybe in time Las Vegas will have a well labelled designated cannabis smoking area right at the airport terminal like they have in Vancouver. And like, come on, it's Vegas...of all the places that should be able to pull something like that off in the USA, you'd think it would be Vegas.
9And public consumption is permitted anywhere tobacco use is
This is so important. I live in WA state USA. You can't legally smoke cannabis outside. It continues to make cannabis consumption illegal for many people.
6I completely agree with you. However in Europe both existing and planned regulations that I am aware of are far away from that. You won’t find a dispensary offering similar selections like in the US anywhere, not even in Amsterdam. The overdue regulation update mentioned in the post won’t change that unfortunately.
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Just to make things clear, it breaks down like this - it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, and if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it.
14Nope, wrong. It's all illegal in the Netherlands, but allowed by the government. It has never been enshrined in law.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Historic moment,” said the health minister, Ernst Kuipers, on Friday as he scanned the first box of legal cannabis in the Baron coffee shop in the southern city of Breda.
In fact, the drug exists in a legal grey area, which the government hopes to stub out with the four-year trial starting in Breda and nearby Tilburg.
The consumption of small quantities of cannabis is illegal but police choose not to enforce the law as part of a “tolerance” policy that has been in place since the 1970s.
This has led to gang involvement, with a related rise in petty crime and antisocial behaviour that officials hope to stop if the trial is successful.
“The product will be clean, tested, pesticide-free,” said Ashwin Matai, the cultivation director at Holland High farm, which will supply coffee shops legally from February.
One unknown surrounding the planned policy is the Geert Wilders factor, whose far-right Party for Freedom won 37 seats in the general election last month.
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2Horrible plan. Just open up the law for home grown stuff with some clear boundaries
0Home-grown was already possible. What do you see as the problem with this plan?
3Possible in practical terms, but not legal
It is against the law to grow marijuana and cannabis plants. In cases where no more than 5 plants are grown for personal consumption, the police will generally only seize the plants. If more than 5 plants are found, the Public Prosecution Service will prosecute.
https://www.government.nl/topics/drugs/toleration-policy-regarding-soft-drugs-and-coffee-shops
Basically if you have 5 or less plants the cops will probably ignore you unless you're a dickhead or are annoying neighbors or something like that.
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