Items tagged with coffee shop
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| 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 trea... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Highs and lows in cannabis policy reform [09.11.2016] | Cannabis is the most widely produced and consumed illicit substance globally. A significant number of states have long engaged in soft defection from... |
| 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... |
| 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 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Aus für Coffee-Shop-Idee? Kreuzberger Pläne erneut abgelehnt [17.02.2016] | In dem Vorhaben reguliert weiche Drogen wie Haschisch und Marihuana zu verkaufen, muss der Berliner Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg erneut eine Schla... |
| 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... |
| Cannabis coffee shops given red light in Berlin [05.10.2015] | The Federal Institute of Pharmaceuticals (BfArM) has rejected plans for legal cannabis sales in Berlin's Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain district. The borou... |
| Cannabis in Berlin: Illegal...or not? [07.08.2015] | In Germany the possession of cannabis is illegal. Even small amounts are prosecuted, but charges are usually dropped. The definition of this " small ... |
| 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... |
| Kreuzberg will kontrollierten Cannabishandel erlauben [25.06.2015] | Der Berliner Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg will Cannabis legal verkaufen lassen und hat dafür einen Antrag gestellt. Es ist der erste dieser Art ei... |
| SPD will Cannabis-Freigabe beschleunigen [21.06.2015] | Die punktuelle Legalisierung von Marihuana in Hamburg rückt näher. Auf ihrem Kreisparteitag werden die Altonaer Genossen voraussichtlich einen Antrag... |
| Kreuzberg will Cannabis schnell legalisieren [14.06.2015] | Seit eineinhalb Jahren wird im Berliner Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg diskutiert den Erwerb und den Konsum von Cannabis zu legalisieren. Noch im Ju... |
| 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... |
| Experte warnt vor Cannabis-Freigabe in der Schanze [20.05.2015] | Um dem zunehmenden Cannabis-Handel im Flora- und Schanzenpark Herr zu werden, fordern Anwohner des Schanzeviertels nun die Freigabe der Droge für ihr... |
| 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... |
| Berlin's increasingly unhappy relationship with marijuana [11.05.2015] | Kreuzberg and Berlin in general are going through an extremely messy fight over how best to control the weed trade. It’s a fight where police raids a... |
| Coffee-Shops in Kreuzberg? Das wird dauern [09.05.2015] | Der legale Cannabis-Verkauf in Kreuzberg kommt nicht voran. Schon für den Antrag fehlt das Geld. Unklar bleibt auch, ob Touristen in Coffee-Shops ein... |
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