Items tagged with coffee shop
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| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Germany should make cannabis available at pharmacies not ‘coffee shops’, says FDP boss [18.10.2021] | The Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) are set to engage in coalition talks in a bid to become the next German ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mayor: no more weed for tourists in Amsterdam [12.01.2021] | The mayor is taking steps to change Amsterdam's image as the international cannabis capital. Coffeeshops attracted an estimated 1.5 million tourist v ... |
| Blown off: Amsterdam will ban foreign tourists from coffeeshops in future [08.01.2021] | Foreign tourists will be banned from coffeeshops in Amsterdam in future. In a letter to the council, mayor Femke Halsema, the public prosecution serv ... |
| Netherlands to draw 10 recreational marijuana growers this week [30.11.2020] | The Dutch government will hold a draw to choose 10 marijuana cultivators for the country’s upcoming pilot program, according to a letter to Parliamen ... |
| Residents-only rule for coffeeshops proposed in Amsterdam [25.09.2020] | Amsterdam city council is gearing up for a new discussion on banning non-residents from its coffeeshops next month, after two new proposals were subm ... |
| It could take 10 years to measure the impact of legalising weed [11.08.2020] | The referendum on legalising recreational cannabis use is just over a month away. Campaigns for and against the change are well under way. We’ve had ... |
| Netherlands clarifies application process to grow adult-use cannabis [16.07.2020] | The Dutch government wants to clear up several issues regarding the application process to grow legal recreational marijuana. The process is part of ... |
| Is the Netherlands finally heading for legalisation? [01.07.2020] | Supplying coffeeshops with cannabis is illegal, so this is being done through a complicated ‘back-door’ policy. There might be a change coming with t ... |
| Netherlands to open applications for cannabis grow experiment next month [10.06.2020] | The Dutch government will start accepting applications in July from potential cultivators for its adult-use cannabis experiment. From July 1 until Ju ... |
| Government reveals cannabis referendum legalisation details [01.05.2020] | Proposed cannabis legalisation will ban items designed to appeal to young people, set a four-year prison term for selling to under 20-year-olds and a ... |
| Dutch marijuana back on sale, but don't forget to wash your hands [31.03.2020] | While most of the Netherlands struggles through the coronavirus lockdown, marijuana smokers received the welcome news that “coffee shops” selling the ... |
| Cannabis cafes can offer takeaways to head off the return of street dealers [16.03.2020] | Dutch cannabis cafes, or coffee shops, have been told they can open their doors for ‘takeaway’ deals, a day after the government ordered them shut un ... |
| Amsterdam to crack down on weed tourism and coffeeshops [14.02.2020] | Amsterdam is exploring how to make cannabis less of a tourist attraction and, at the same time, crack down on the illegal supply chain, according to ... |
| High time: Netherlands moves to clean up absurd cannabis policy [06.02.2020] | If there’s one contradiction that goes to the heart of why Dutch drugs policy has lost its way, it’s this: that while it’s legal for “coffee shops” t ... |
| Dutch fear making a hash of cannabis reform [05.12.2019] | The Netherlands has long been a mecca for buzz-seeking tourists on account of its lax cannabis laws. What many of them don't know is that cannabis is ... |
| Green light: ten towns named for legalised cannabis-growing experiment [29.08.2019] | One in seven Dutch coffee shops is set to join an experiment where for the first time cannabis growing is to be regulated. Justice minister Ferdinand ... |
| Almere, Breda and Tilburg set to join regulated marijuana experiment [28.08.2019] | The Dutch government will press ahead with trials of regulated marijuana production with the maximum 10 cities when the experiment starts in 2021. Th ... |
| Big Dutch cities, coffee shops say no to regulated marijuana trials [11.06.2019] | A handful of the Netherlands’ medium sized cities have come forward to take part in the government’s controversial regulated marijuana experiment but ... |
| Eindhoven says no to regulated marijuana experiment [23.05.2019] | Eindhoven has followed The Hague and Amsterdam and decided not to take part in the government’s experiment with regulated marijuana cultivation, sayi ... |
| The Hague says no to regulated marijuana trials, criticises rules [16.05.2019] | The Hague has followed Amsterdam and decided not to take part in the experiment with regulated marijuana cultivation, saying the plan is unworkable. ... |
| Netherlands prepares legal recreational cannabis cultivation experiment [09.05.2019] | The Netherlands is laying the groundwork to become the first country in Europe to allow commercial production of adult-use marijuana – although initi ... |
| BBC documentary exposes hashish farmers’ vulnerability and officials' alleged involvement [26.04.2019] | A BBC Arabic documentary tried to answer a daring question on hash cultivation in Morocco. Entitled Who is Getting Rich from Moroccan Hash?, the proj ... |
| Dutch ministers unveil marijuana plans [11.04.2019] | The Dutch government is to press ahead with experiments in regulated marijuana production involving 10 licenced growers, according to the detailed pl ... |
| Dutch weed experiment: The ongoing fight to regulate famed coffee shops [11.01.2019] | When the Dutch government announced in October 2017 plans for an experiment with regulated cannabis production to supply the country’s famous coffee ... |
| Harm reduction is the right way to treat drug abuse [24.11.2018] | Portugal’s policies are based on “harm reduction” approaches pioneered in countries such as Switzerland in the 1980s. The idea is to emphasise treatm ... |
| What the Dutch can teach the world about cannabis [26.10.2018] | On October 17, Canada became the first large economy to legalise recreational weed. (Uruguay blazed the trail in 2013.) From November 1, doctors can ... |
| Amsterdam calls plan for regulated cannabis cultivation unfeasible, dangerous [03.10.2018] | Amsterdam finds the national experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation unfeasible and "risky to public order". The municipality would like to pa ... |
| Pays-Bas : Le haschich marocain s’invite à la Chambre basse [25.09.2018] | Le trafic et la commercialisation du cannabis marocain aux Pays-Bas sont actuellement étudiés par les partis politiques néerlandais. Plusieurs propos ... |
| Luxembourg debates legalising cannabis for recreational use [26.07.2018] | Luxembourg politicians contemplated legalising cannabis, after a public petition garnered enough signatures to prompt a parliamentary debate. The pet ... |
| Smoke rings: more councils volunteer for cannabis growing trial [06.07.2018] | Municipalities in the Netherlands have signed up to a mooted four-year trial in legally growing cannabis for the first time. The new coalition agreem ... |
| Regulated marijuana trial should be bigger [21.06.2018] | The government’s plans to experiment with regulated marijuana cultivation should be carried out far more widely than in just six to 10 local authorit ... |
| French government ‘to close’ newly opened Paris cannabis coffee shops [20.06.2018] | Along with the UK, France has among the strictest laws on Cannabis in western Europe, but despite this, huge queues have formed over the past few wee ... |
| Cannabis petition reaches vote threshold in under 24 hours [14.06.2018] | It took very little time for petition 1031 on the Luxembourg government's website – calling for the legal sale of cannabis in 'coffee shops' – to rea ... |
| What's the story behind the new cannabis-selling 'coffee shops' in Paris? [11.06.2018] | Two shops selling cannabis or more specifically "cannabidiol" based products (CBD) opened in central Paris and just outside the capital. Cofyshop, th ... |
| Solving the Dutch pot paradox: Legal to buy, but not to grow [25.03.2018] | In the Netherlands it is illegal to grow more than five cannabis plants for recreational use in what has long been seen as Europe’s marijuana capital ... |
| Ministers to decide on marijuana cultivation trials by the summer [12.03.2018] | Ministers will publish their proposals for the planned experiment with legal marijuana cultivation by the summer, justice minister Ferdinand Grapperh ... |
| Dutch councils vie to produce cannabis in bid to cut out criminals [27.12.2017] | At least 30 companies want to get into the legal production of cannabis in the Netherlands, according to Paul Depla, the mayor of Breda, whose counci ... |
| Justice ministry manipulated studies into cannabis policy [07.12.2017] | Senior justice ministry officials directly interfered with independent research into the ministry’s own cannabis policy, current affairs programme Ni ... |
| Netherlands coffee shop case highlights 'paradox' of cannabis laws [29.11.2017] | With 3,000 customers a day, a restaurant, ample parking and turnover of €26m (£23m) a year, Checkpoint cafe, the largest cannabis-selling coffee shop ... |
| Court finds owner of biggest cannabis cafe guilty, but rules out punishment [28.11.2017] | The owner of the former Checkpoint cannabis café in Terneuzen, close to the border with Belgium, has been found guilty of trading in soft drugs and m ... |
| Dutch councils queue up for regulated marijuana project [07.11.2017] | So far 25 of the Netherlands’ 380 local authorities have come forward to say they wish to take part in trials to regulate marijuana production. The n ... |
| Roosendaal and Limburg have most drugs-related problems: CBS [24.07.2017] | People living in the south of the Netherlands experience most problems with drugs and dealers, according to new research by national statistics offic ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 backed new legislation which would regulate marijuana cultivation under government control. The vote, by 77 to 72, would allow cann ... |
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