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Drug Decriminalisation Across the World [31.12.2030] The criminalisation of people who use drugs compounds drug-related challenges and worsens health and welfare outcomes. Across the world, there is a g ...
As the mayor of Amsterdam, I can see the Netherlands risks becoming a narco-state [05.01.2024] In the Netherlands, we used to look on the international “war on drugs” with a certain amount of disdain. Its solutions were prohibition, criminalisa ...
High time: after five years, Dutch start legal cannabis trial [15.12.2023] The Netherlands’ legal weed experiment kicked off in Breda and Tilburg, with Europe’s first ever licensed and controlled cannabis arriving in city co ...
Legal Cannabis cultivation pilot set to begin on Friday [14.12.2023] The Netherlands’ long-awaited experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation starts in Tilburg and Breda on Friday. Coffeeshops in these two municipa ...
Cannabis : pourquoi la France bloque quand nos voisins européens assouplissent la législation [19.11.2023] « Clubs de cannabis, culture à domicile, Weed care… » : l'Allemagne, le Luxembourg, les Pays-Bas, la Belgique et la Suisse - ces pays frontaliers de ...
Potential cannabis associations to receive harm reduction training by next November [23.09.2023] The Authority for the Responsible Use of Cannabis (ARUC) will be organising the first training on harm reduction for those Associations which have re ...
Tilburg, Breda launch legal cannabis trials in December [15.09.2023] The Dutch government’s long-awaited legal cannabis experiment will kick off in Tilburg and Breda on December 15 when two licenced growers start suppl ...
No joke: laughing gas ban has created ‘deadly waste hazard’ [01.09.2023] Measures to dispose of laughing glass cylinders have turned the flasks into a potentially deadly hazard, waste processing industry body NVRD has warn ...
Tackling Belgium’s drug problem: Legalising cannabis is ‘common sense,’ says Economy Minister [31.08.2023] A solution to the drug and security problem in Belgium's bigger cities, such as Brussels and Antwerp, could be legalising the sale and use of cannabi ...
Cannabis policy needs to be monitored for health impact - EU drugs agency [01.07.2023] European countries that are widening their cannabis policies should invest in monitoring and evaluation to understand the impact on public health and ...
New report describes growing complexity and change in cannabis laws in Europe [05.06.2023] What forms of cannabis regulation are under consideration in Europe? What types of cannabis are controlled? Are cosmetic and wellness products contai ...
Blow to red light tourists: cannabis smoking banned in public [25.05.2023] Smoking cannabis in public is forbidden in the centre of Amsterdam from Thursday, as part of a raft of measures to restrain party tourism. In the Bur ...
European cannabis legalisation moves into the slow-dopey lane [11.05.2023] Germany’s plans to move to full legalisation of consumption and sales of cannabis came to an abrupt halt last month. Until recently, Germany’s health ...
Thailand’s cannabis sellers say US growers are eating their lunch [08.05.2023] Nearly a year after Thailand decriminalised cannabis amid promises of an economic bonanza, Thai growers and sellers say they are being undercut by il ...
Dutch cannabis policy example of ‘how not to do it’, says German minister [13.04.2023] 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 broadc ...
Tilburg and Breda to kick off regulated marijuana experiment [22.02.2023] Coffee shops in Tilburg and Breda may be able to take part in the experiment with regulated marijuana as early as October, ministers have agreed. The ...
Amsterdam to outlaw cannabis-smoking in red-light district streets [10.02.2023] Smoking cannabis on the street in Amsterdam’s red light district will soon be illegal, the city council has announced, as part of a range of bylaws d ...
In the weeds: Germany's plan to legalise cannabis in 2024 likely delayed [27.01.2023] Germany's plans to legalise cannabis consumption in 2024 are looking increasingly unlikely as it has yet to submit its proposals to the European Comm ...
Self-medication far outstrips use of prescription marijuana [23.01.2023] Most of the 130,000 people in the Netherlands who use cannabis as a medicine to help with depression or pain, for example, buy the plant from a coffe ...
Record 100 tonnes of cocaine seized in Port of Antwerp last year [10.01.2023] Last year, Belgian customs intercepted just under 110 tonnes of cocaine in the Port of Antwerp, a new record, as it marks the first time the 100-tonn ...
Regulated cultivated cannabis experiment delayed again; could start in 2024 [03.12.2022] Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that the experiment in regulated cultivated cannabis will be postponed again. He expects that "as it stands now" o ...
Treat Breda as part of Germany so regulated weed can go ahead: mayor [07.11.2022] The mayor of Breda has asked if his region can be treated as a part of Germany, in order to go ahead with a trial of regulated cannabis growing. Spea ...
Dutch marijuana growing experiment runs into more delays [27.10.2022] Marijuana growers who have been selected to take part in the government’s controlled cultivation trials said that they will not be ready to start ear ...
Amsterdam mayor wants Europe to decriminalize cocaine: “War on drugs isn’t working [07.10.2022] Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema believes that Europe should decriminalize the sale of cocaine, like various countries already allow the sale of cannabi ...
Amsterdam council to vote against banning tourists from coffeeshops [30.09.2022] Amsterdam council will vote against a proposal to enforce a national ban against tourists in coffeeshops, where cannabis is smoked. Mayor Femke Halse ...
High street? Dutch ecstasy ‘shop’ shows possible way for drug reform [18.08.2022] For campaigners advocating drug liberalisation, it is an image that is almost too good to be true: a store down a cobbled street in Utrecht legally s ...
Council of State opposes plan to ban sale of laughing gas [18.07.2022] The Council of State, which examines and makes recommendations about all new draft legislation in the Netherlands, says the government should not int ...
Luxembourg leads the charge for a new European drug policy [17.07.2022] On Friday 15 July, representatives from Germany, the Netherlands, and Malta met at Senningen Castle and agreed that they want to switch to a differen ...
Results of cultivated cannabis experiment won't be ready in 2024: Ministers [08.07.2022] The government won't be able to draw conclusions from the regulated cannabis experiment in the Netherlands in 2024. The experiment starts later than ...
Banning tourists from cannabis cafes will cut back on crime: Halsema [25.06.2022] Amsterdam’s cannabis cafes are often intertwined with serious crime and play a serious role in money laundering, the capital’s mayor Femke Halsema ha ...
Legalise ecstasy and cannabis to combat drugs crime: think tank [23.06.2022] Dutch drugs criminality could be tackled by legalising ecstasy and cannabis and by a taking a much tougher approach to cocaine smuggling, an independ ...
Street dealers dealt with in Amsterdam anti-drug campaign [23.04.2022] As tourists return in full force to the Amsterdam red light district, Amsterdam city council has met them with police action and a campaign warning v ...
Cannabis entrepreneurs in Amsterdam feel "ignored" by Mayor Halsema [12.04.2022] Several entrepreneurs in the Amsterdam cannabis industry said they feel ignored by Mayor Femke Halsema. They said they were surprised by Halsema’s an ...
Amsterdam to ban coffeeshops selling weed to tourists [12.04.2022] Mayor Femke Halsema plans to go through with a ban on coffeeshops selling weed to tourists in Amsterdam, she said in a letter to the city council. Ac ...
Dutch police busted fewer cannabis plantations, drug labs last year [04.04.2022] The police busted and dismantled fewer synthetic drug labs and cannabis plantations last year, latest figures show. The number of discovered drug lab ...
Netherlands' regulated cannabis experiment postponed again [30.03.2022] The Netherlands' experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation has been delayed again. The trial will only start in the second quarter of 2023, Mini ...
How the Netherlands became a global cocaine hub [23.03.2022] While the scale of the discovery was shocking, the fact of it was not. The number of cocaine seizures in Europe has been rising steadily, quadrupling ...
Rotterdam port cocaine seizures hit new high, total street value over €5bn [10.01.2022] Customs officials based at Rotterdam port seized cocaine with a street value of over €5bn last year, or a total of over 70 tonnes of the class A drug ...
Dutch cannabis cafes see rise in business during COVID-19 pandemic [13.12.2021] The cannabis trade in the Netherlands booms despite the current coronavirus restrictions. Whether it is to calm their anxiety or ease the boredom of ...
In first for Europe, Malta to legalize recreational marijuana, with several other countries on the cusp [13.12.2021] “The transatlantic winds of change that have been blowing in the Americas for a while have now reached the shores in Europe,” Tom Blickman of the Ams ...
After Malta, Germany set to make pot mainstream [02.12.2021] The European Union is currently a hotchpotch of different approaches to cannabis use, ranging from complete prohibition to different levels of decrim ...
The ‘cocaine collectors’ retrieving smuggled drugs in Rotterdam [26.11.2021] As the volume of cocaine trafficked into the Netherlands through the port city of Rotterdam increases, so too does the number of young men employed b ...
ABN raises charges for coffeeshops by 1000% to cover money laundering costs [28.10.2021] ABN AMRO is raising its bank charges for coffeeshops by 1000% to cover the costs of complying with anti-money laundering laws. From January coffeesho ...
A roundup of countries that permit recreational cannabis [15.10.2021] Marijuana may be an issue of easy agreement in the ongoing coalition talks between Germany's leading parties. Despite numerous points of contention, ...
40 mayors call on next Dutch government to legalise marijuana [23.09.2021] Almost 40 Dutch mayors, mainly from the south of the Netherlands, have signed a manifesto calling on the government to legalise soft drugs (cannabis) ...
Antwerp and Rotterdam are new epicentre of European cocaine trade [09.09.2021] The increased use of shipping containers to conceal drugs has made the high volume ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg the new epicentre of the E ...
Licenced marijuana experiment may be delayed: NOS [01.07.2021] A Dutch experiment involving the licenced production and sale of cannabis which is due to start this autumn is likely to be delayed, broadcaster NOS ...
MDMA gangs are literally polluting Europe [18.06.2021] Noxious dumps in “drug pits” is one of many new ways drug gangs in the Netherlands and Belgium are disposing of the toxic waste created in one of the ...
Autistic man set out of home ‘after growing single cannabis plant’ [18.06.2021] The mayor of a town in North Brabant has been accused of acting too harshly after allegedly setting an autistic man out of his home when he was disco ...
Experts warn that keeping tourists out of Amsterdam coffee shops won’t be easy [26.05.2021] Suggestions that foreign tourists be banned from Amsterdam’s cannabis cafes, or coffee shops, have been greeted with alarm by experts. ‘The plan is d ...

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