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Dutch Cannabis Bars Set Up Sector Organisation [NL]
    #5759749 - 06/17/06 04:13 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Dutch Cannabis Bars Set Up Sector Organisation
JUne 16, 2006 - nisnews.nl

ROTTERDAM, 16/06/06 - Cannabis bars in the Rotterdam region have joined forces in a sector organisation. They want to lobby for a uniform national drugs policy.

The sector organisation represents all businesses with a licence to sell cannabis products. Growing shops (shops for growing equipment) and cannabis growers are excluded from membership.

Rotterdam region has around 70 tolerated sales outlets for cannabis products, better known as 'coffee shops.' Businesses in the sector see themselves as forced to set up their own organisation "because coffee shops have been subject in recent years to an extremely stringent government policy. The sector has as a result come to be seen in a negative light."

The association has set itself the aim of improving the image of coffee shops in its working area. The initiators are pushing for self-regulation, and especially for "uniform maintenance of regulations relating to coffee shops." Currently, different regimes apply in different municipalities regarding supervision and sanctions, and infringements such as selling to youngsters aged under 18.

The initiators consider "nuisance-causing home-growing of cannabis an undesirable social occurrence." For this reason, the sector organisation wants cannabis cultivation regulated at municipal level. A Lower House majority also wants this, as coffee shops are allowed to sell cannabis but not to purchase the drugs from growers.

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Re: Dutch Cannabis Bars Set Up Sector Organisation [NL] [Re: veggie]
    #5771597 - 06/20/06 06:24 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

There's no such things as Cannabis Bars in Holland.

We call em Coffeeshops, memorize that in case you find yourself in Amsterdam one day.

When you say "coffeeshop" in Holland, not even old folks will think of places like Starbucks: everybody thinks of primo weed and hash going for $5-10 per gram.


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Re: Dutch Cannabis Bars Set Up Sector Organisation [NL] [Re: Asante]
    #5771611 - 06/20/06 06:37 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I miss Holland... there was something magical about sitting in a coffee shop, smoking some herb, and watching the barges of flowers drift down the canals. It wasn't until I returned to America after being in Holland that I realized how much of a "moral police state" the US has become.


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Re: Dutch Cannabis Bars Set Up Sector Organisation [NL] [Re: Seuss]
    #5846144 - 07/11/06 08:51 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

The dutch cannabis sector has been organized for years now, through the PCN (Platform Cannabusiness Netherlands), who are trying for quite some time now to make decrimninalize growing so the strange "backdoor" situation we're in now would cease to exist. Also, don't idealize the Netherlands too much, we have our share of narrow-minded moralists too. The country is being "run" by the CDA in which C stands for christian, nuff said. One example: police raided a dance party last weekend arresting 47 people for drug posession (amounts for personal use, no intent to sell) a relatively new thing in Holland, but increasingly popular.


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Re: Dutch Cannabis Bars Set Up Sector Organisation [NL] [Re: Dexter]
    #5849001 - 07/11/06 10:19 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

The initiators consider "nuisance-causing home-growing of cannabis an undesirable social occurrence." For this reason, the sector organization wants cannabis cultivation regulated at municipal level. "

Kinda sounds like a back-handed way to increase penalties for growers.

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