Cannabis is NOT legal in The Netherlands

For the sale of weed and hashish, coffee shops must adhere to rules (the tolerance criteria). A coffee shop must meet the following conditions:

1. No more than 5 grams of soft drugs may be sold per person per day.
2. Hard drugs may not be sold.
3. No soft drugs may be sold to minors.
4. Minors may not be admitted to a coffee shop.
5. No alcohol may be served.
6. Drugs and coffee shops may not be advertised.
7. No nuisance to the environment must be caused.
8. The trading stock may not exceed 500 grams.
9. Access and sales are restricted to residents of the Netherlands.

The sale of soft drugs remains punishable. If coffee shop owners do not comply with the conditions, they can be prosecuted, and the mayor can close the coffee shop temporarily. To prevent nuisance, municipalities can set additional requirements for a coffee shop. For example, adjusted opening times or a greater distance from schools.

One of the most idiotic laws is the 500-meter policy, which mandates the closure of every coffee shop within a 500-meter radius of a school. As if students are not going to use cannabis or use less cannabis and cannot walk or cycle 600 meters! It sounds absurd, but this is the new Dutch policy aimed at closing as many coffee shops as possible.

A coffee shop may not have more than 500 grams of cannabis in stock. This is an unrealistically low number, considering that most coffee shops offer around 10 types of weed and/or hashish and can sell 5 grams per customer. Transporting cannabis is also forbidden, meaning the supplier is punishable and runs the risk of a prison sentence. Since a coffee shop needs to be supplied several times a day, especially large ones in Amsterdam that receive hundreds of customers daily, this creates an unworkable situation.

Keeping 5 cannabis plants for personal use in your home or garden has been tolerated, but in practice, they are often removed by the police. This includes cases involving elderly individuals who grow a cannabis plant in their garden for medicinal purposes to alleviate conditions such as Parkinson's or other ailments.

(VIDEO) Besides their vegetable garden, Jan (73) and Jannie (68) van Raalte have two cannabis plants in their garden in Hasselt. Jan uses the plant to make cannabis oil to alleviate Jannie's skin complaints. However, due to an anonymous report, the police threaten to remove the plants on Saturday.

"That this can easily be removed in the Netherlands," says Jan van Raalte a few times in succession. Immediately afterwards, the phone rings. A person unknown to them offers to move the plants to his garden. "That is not possible, then the plant can also be thrown away. But this does say that everyone wants to help us and sympathize with us," Jan remarks.

That is disastrous for Jannie. She has been using the oil from the plants for several years to suppress psoriasis skin disease," Jan explains. "I have had this for 45 years and have often been to the doctor. Nothing helps except this. It is an emergency measure. Otherwise, I have a lot of itching, even bleeding. It never goes away completely, but I now have less itch. We still have a stock, and I expect more itching when it is finished. The plants do not emit any odor, and the neighbors all indicate that they have no problems with it.

Forbidden

Normal cannabis oil does not help Jannie. "We can buy cannabis oil, but that does not help me and it is expensive. Cannabis oil is also chemically processed," says Jannie. In the Netherlands, it is forbidden to have cannabis plants. "There is a tolerance policy whereby five or fewer plants are removed, but there is no question of criminal prosecution," says police spokesman Henk Kremer.

Jan and Jannie spoke to Zwartewaterland Mayor Eddy Bilder. "I can easily relate to their motives for having these plants," says Bilder. "I am not happy with what is going on. This is a matter for the police, and I cannot do anything for them. In the Netherlands, we have a strict policy on cannabis.

Jan has little hope that he can still keep the plants to help his wife. "I think I can only harvest in four weeks. I already went to the police today and said that we are gone Saturday afternoon. We will be home after 5 pm and then they can pick it up. It is my honor to remove the plants myself for this. We must cherish such plants. I think that thousands of people have these plants for the same purpose. It must be legal. We could buy this at a coffee shop. That has been made illegal. That is possible, but we are not going to do that, are we?" Jan says, looking at Jannie.

Within two days, there were almost a thousand responses to the message, the majority of which were negative. The promotion was described as "nonsense," "pathetic," and "crazy." The police were greatly shocked by the harsh responses, and the police officer was even forced to delete his account.

Source: Dutch Newspaper

And indeed, a few days after this article, the plants were actually removed!

If you think that this article about this seizure is unique, then you are mistaken.

There are even more apparent cases where elderly people are evicted from their homes because they grow cannabis indoors in a tent.

After discovery, an eviction procedure is started immediately by the housing association, and the residents are evicted from their house!

when reading this, it's evident that there are complex issues surrounding the cultivation and use of cannabis, especially for medicinal purposes. The stories of individuals like Jan and Jannie highlight the challenges faced by those who rely on cannabis for health reasons. Additionally, the eviction of elderly individuals for growing cannabis indoors underscores the legal and social complexities surrounding drug policies.

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