Items tagged with netherlands
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| Comparing models of drug decriminalisation [31.12.2019] | Decriminalisation refers to the repeal of laws and policies that define drug use and/or the possession of drugs for personal use as a criminal offenc... |
| Blow for cannabis cafes as numbers continue to decline [04.07.2017] | The number of ‘coffeeshops’ in the Netherlands is continuing to fall but the closure rate has slowed, new official figures show. Last year there were... |
| Big Dutch banks, brewers and housing corporations have cannabis cafe interests [28.06.2017] | The four biggest Dutch banks – Rabobank, ING, ABN Amro and Volksbank (formerly SNS) – have lent cannabis cafe owners some €1.1bn using 170 coffee sho... |
| Change in policy will not get rid of illegal cannabis cultivation: Dutch Ministries [11.05.2017] | Little will change around illegal cannabis cultivation, even if the government changes the current tolerance policy, according to officials from the ... |
| Medical marijuana – high time the Dutch got their message straight [24.03.2017] | The Netherlands is a major exporter of medical marijuana, even though it has never been formally approved here as a treatment for Dutch patients. And... |
| Cannabis legislation in Europe [15.03.2017] | At a time of increased debate on the laws controlling the use of cannabis in the European Union, this report answers some of the questions most often... |
| What’s next after new Dutch cannabis cultivation bill [25.02.2017] | In a landmark decision, the lower House of the Dutch parliament voted in favour of adding cannabis cultivation to it's tolerance policy. A move that ... |
| Dutch MPs vote in favour of regulated marijuana cultivation [21.02.2017] | A narrow majority of MPs backed new legislation which would regulate marijuana cultivation under government control. The vote, by 77 to 72, would all... |
| 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... |
| Ruling party to support regulated cannabis cultivation after all [21.11.2016] | It seems that ruling party VVD will support regulating cannabis cultivation in the Netherlands. During a VVD conference a vast majority of party memb... |
| Legalise weed growing: VVD proposal seeds dissent [08.11.2016] | VVD leaders in the south of the Netherlands are proposing an overhaul of cannabis laws to regulate cultivation, decriminalising what is currently a g... |
| The Netherlands comes a step closer to legalised marijuana cultivation [23.09.2016] | A majority of MPs now seem likely to back draft legislation from the Liberal democratic party D66 which would regulate legalised marijuana cultivatio... |
| Tilburg to allow medical marijuana users to grow drug at home [14.09.2016] | Tilburg Mayor Peter Noordanus decided to allow patients using medical marijuana to grow it themselves at their homes in the city, he wrote in a lette... |
| Dutch lead the west in online drugs sales: report [15.08.2016] | The online sale of illegal drugs is higher per head of the Dutch population than in any other major western country, according to a new report commis... |
| Dutch police dismantle nearly 16 marijuana plantations a day [21.07.2016] | The police dismantled 5,856 marijuana plantations last year, or nearly 16 a day, according to NRC newspaper. Police estimate this is only one fifth o... |
| Drugs in Europe: Not mind-stretching enough [17.06.2016] | European countries’ reforms have lost momentum, or even slipped backwards. Most drug-policy experts consider this a shame. The reformist countries’ e... |
| Human rights study no reason to change cannabis regulation policy [15.06.2016] | A recent study by Radboud University Nijmegen that concluded that regulating cannabis cultivation could improve human rights is no reason for the Net... |
| Dutch cities renew call for regulated cannabis cultivation [09.06.2016] | Almost 90 percent of Dutch municipalities supported a call on the government to allow experiments with regulated cannabis cultivation at the associat... |
| Court tears up cannabis cafe conviction; says supplies essential to do business [03.06.2016] | Appeal court judges in The Hague have torn up a community service sentence handed down to a cannabis cafe owner, saying officials should have been aw... |
| Legal cannabis cultivation would cut violent crime: report [30.05.2016] | Legalizing cannabis cultivation and trade could reduce violent crime related to illegal cultivation and could therefore protect human rights, accordi... |
| Ecstasy is getting stronger, drug testing clinic warns [02.05.2016] | The amount of active ingredients in ecstasy pills in the Netherlands has almost doubled in 10 years, according to the Trimbos addiction institute, wh... |
| Rethinking drug prohibition on a global scale [01.05.2016] | Last month, the United Nations General Assembly met for the first time in history to reconsider international drug prohibition with an eye toward pol... |
| Owner of biggest cannabis cafe faces retrial [25.04.2016] | The Dutch supreme court has ordered a retrial of the owner of what was the country’s biggest cannabis cafe, saying a lower court ruling clearing him ... |
| Trouble in Europe's pot paradise [18.04.2016] | Though the Dutch have struck a compromise with international treaties that shows great results for reducing harm for drug users, the approach has lar... |
| Cannabis Science and Policy Summit 2016 [16.04.2016] | With California and other states likely to vote on full cannabis legalization, decisions made in 2016 may well shape the future of cannabis policy fo... |
| Hazy legality: how legal is Dutch weed really? [14.04.2016] | Last November, the local authorities’ association VNG, which represents all 393 Dutch municipalities, issued a report stating that ‘the current situa... |
| A Quiet Revolution [14.03.2016] | This is the second edition of ‘A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Across the Globe’. The first edition was released in July 2012 and has sinc... |
| France has highest (number of) teen cannabis smokers [14.03.2016] | France and Canada have the highest percentage of 15-year-old cannabis smokers among 42 well-off nations surveyed by the World Health Organization. Wh... |
| Coffeeshops getting more cannabis from outside Netherlands [03.03.2016] | The only effect the new Opium Act had is that coffeeshops are now getting more cannabis from abroad. The major illegal cannabis cultivators did not s... |
| The history of cannabis and international control [02.03.2016] | This timeline draws on The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition, a report that described the history of international control, how cannabis was i... |
| Medical cannabis market shows growing pains [26.01.2016] | The Czech Republic took a bold step back in 2013 when lawmakers agreed to legalise the sale of medicinal cannabis or marihuana. But the development o... |
| Dutch cannabis grower revels in court victory [01.12.2015] | Once in his greenhouse in a remote Dutch village, Doede de Jong nurtured a thriving cannabis crop to sell to local users. Now only five plants remain... |
| Local councils call for regulated marijuana growing to keep out criminal gangs [30.11.2015] | The Dutch local authorities' platform VNG called on the government to allow regulated cannabis production by introducing licences for growers to take... |
| Altruistic marijuana grower is guilty but goes unpunished [30.10.2015] | Dutch cannabis grower Doede de Jong has been found guilty of cultivating cannabis by the appeal court but will not be punished because he had done al... |
| Legal and social: this is how the first Cannabis Club in the Netherlands would like marijuana [15.10.2015] | How does a Social Club fit in the Dutch capital, with its about 200 coffee shops? "The concept of The Tree of Life is very different than a coffeesho... |
| Idealistic marijuana growers get suspended jail terms [09.09.2015] | A couple who grew marijuana ‘by the book’ and informed the tax office about their income have been found guilty of running an illegal plantation and ... |
| Cities renew effort to cultivate marijuana; parliament still opposed [13.07.2015] | The city of Utrecht, as well as the cities of Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Heerlen and Tilburg, are still investigating whether cannabis cultivati... |
| 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... |
| MPs block cities from harvesting marijuana [19.05.2015] | A narrow majority in the Tweede Kamer, lower house of parliament in the Netherlands, supported a motion to not allow municipalities to experiment wit... |
| Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives and UNGASS 2016 [28.04.2015] | As the world prepares for the 2016 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016), an increasing numb... |
| Drug users should be able to get heroin from the health system [13.04.2015] | No fewer than six randomised controlled trials – in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Canada, and England – concluded that heroin assiste... |
| With new anti-marijuana rules in force, police raid ‘grow shops’ [01.03.2015] | Police in the Netherlands have made immediate use of their new powers to clamp down on marijuana cultivation with three raids in different parts of t... |
| D66 devises plan to regulate Dutch marijuana production [26.02.2015] | Liberal democratic party D66 is introducing draft legislation to regulate the production and sale of marijuana in the Netherlands. D66 has called for... |
| 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... |
| Reguleer wiet, en niet alleen de achterdeur [25.02.2015] | De advocaten Spong, Smeets en Vis houden een pleidooi voor het reguleren van de achterdeur van de coffeeshops in een opiniestuk in het NRC. Zij zette... |
| Marijuana growers steal more electricity, fewer plantations discovered [02.02.2015] | The amount of electricity stolen by marijuana growers rose by 5% last year but fewer plantations were discovered than in 2013, according to the Dutch... |
| Cannabis policy reform in Europe [27.12.2014] | While in the Americas cannabis policy reform is taking off, Europe seems to be lagging behind. That is to say, in European nations at the level of na... |
| Reform der Cannabispolitik in Europa [27.12.2014] | Während die Reform der Cannabispolitik in Amerika Fahrt aufnimmt, scheint Europa hinterherzuhinken. Genauer gesagt, die europäischen Staaten auf nati... |
| Most marijuana grown in the Netherlands is exported, new research shows [16.12.2014] | Between 78% and 91% of marijuana grown in the Netherlands is exported, according to new justice ministry research. This makes it pointless to regulat... |
| 'You will not be arrested for using drugs' [02.12.2014] | Authorities in the Netherlands are warning Amsterdam tourists about heroin masquerading as cocaine, which has already killed several people and sent ... |
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