Articles tagged with "Netherlands"

A roving team of pollsters dressed in bright yellow sweaters is conducting a survey to help inform the country’s policy debate. Tell them what you think.

For more than 20 years, the VVD has supported a repressive cannabis policy, blocking any effort to decriminalize cannabis production. No longer.

The city has shuttered the shops that have been fired at, raising concerns among some that municipal policy may be fueling an industry turf war.

Johan van Laarhoven, who faces a 103-year sentence in Thailand, has written a letter to Dutch King Willem-Alexander pleading to be freed from “this Thai hell.”

She’s one of the most successful, innovative entrepreneurs in Dutch cannabis. And she’s promising to shake up the industry.

A breakthrough alliance between political parties could finally fill gaping holes in policies around The Netherlands’ famous cannabis coffeeshops.

Dutch cannabis sales are moving into the 21st century despite the industry’s legal status being stuck in a bygone era. Buds of dubious provenance may soon become relics of the past.

Doede De Jong is fighting a longtime paradox in the Netherlands that allows cannabis sales at coffeeshops but prohibits cultivation.

Canadian banks pull plug on medical marijuana clients, New Jersey OKs cannabis for PTSD, and U.K. report says ignoring medical benefits is “irrational.”

The move is aimed at protecting patients with small-scale home grows, who currently face the threat of eviction and seizure of their plants.