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Dutch Parliament is going to decide about the Achterdeur

rene — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:39:16 +0000

As you all know the Dutch policies about soft drugs are very tolerant (and in a sense very backward). You can go to your favourite Coffeeshop and buy up to 5 grams of cannabis per day. For the last 40…

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Amsterdam – Day 3 preparing for NYE

rene — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 17:01:45 +0000

Amsterdam is a very vibrant city during New Year’s Eve. The city is very busy and going around can be a pain. We had planned to check in on some of the coffeeshops that were about to cease business. This…

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Big news from Canada and Mexico

rene — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:04:04 +0000

UNGASS2016 didn’t bring the long overdue change in global drug policy. There were some bright signs during the conference but the outcome document still has a harsh sound. Many asian countries defended their death penalties, on the other hand there…

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UNGASS 2016 Starts today

rene — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 02:20:06 +0000

So today starts the UNGASS 2016. It will be interesting to see what the UN decides. This week will be packed with international networking and many round tables about different topics and finally there will be a resolution that will cover…

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Another dutch city bans tourists

rene — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 22:21:39 +0000

The durch city of Sittard is going to ban tourists from visiting their coffeeshops starting April 1st 2016. The goal of that ruleing is to prevent coffeeshop tourists from flooding the city. Some coffeshop owners stated that the ruleing might…

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A short documentary

rene — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 08:58:40 +0000

Atlas Documentary Films recently published a short documentary about the Dutch Coffeeshop system. It contains multiple interviews with very important people of the amsterdam coffeeshop scene. It features Wernard Bruining the owner of Mellow Yellow, Kurt van Es a dutch…

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Man arrested for theft from coffeeshop

rene — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 07:12:40 +0000

After a theft from a coffeeshop in Enschede a 28 year old man got arrested. Read more at tvenschedefm.nl.

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VABC Requested double Stock

rene — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 21:11:00 +0000

The Vereniging Actieve Bredase Coffeeshopondernemers, in short VABC, requested, in an open letter to the city of Breda, that the allowed stock for coffeeshops is doubled in Breda. When you’re fluent in dutch you can read more at BNDeStem.

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UNGASS 2016 prepareation ongoing

rene — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:47:08 +0000

UNGASS 2016 what is it? UNGASS 2016 or United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem is a gathering of the United Nations to discuss matters of the global drug policies. It’s the first meeting in that…

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Not so good news from Den Haag

rene — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:03:51 +0000

Something not so good happened today. The supreme court of the netherlands approved a decision against a coffeeshop owner. When you’re fluent in dutch you can read the ruleing at rechtspraak.nl. The prosecutors where watching “de achterdeur” to find the stock…

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