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Netherlands begins trial to make cannabis fully legal
Experiment aims to make production, supply and smoking legal and remove effects of gang involvementNetherlands begins trial to make cannabis fully legal
Experiment aims to make production, supply and smoking legal and remove effects of gang involvementEurope live – latest updates
Agence France-Presse in Breda
Fri 15 Dec 2023 13.42 CET
Cannabis users in two Dutch cities can smoke legally for the first time as authorities roll out a trial that would expand the country’s tolerance of marijuana to full legality.“Historic moment,” said the health minister, Ernst Kuipers, on Friday as he scanned the first box of legal cannabis in the Baron coffee shop in the southern city of Breda.
A misconception abroad is that cannabis is already legal in the Netherlands, which is home to the famous coffee shops and seen as a huge draw for cannabis smokers.
In fact, the drug exists in a legal grey area, which the government hopes to stub out with the four-year trial starting in Breda and nearby Tilburg.