CANNABIS CULTIVATION IN THE NETHERLANDS
While Dutch authorities allow the sale of recreational cannabis in coffee shops, cultivation and wholesale for that market remains completely illegal. They are however now planning to become the first country in Europe to allow commercial production of adult-use marijuana – under what they call wietexperiment (weed experiment). In other words a limited number of companies would be allowed to legally grow marijuana to supply coffee shops in the country that would, in turn, sell the products to consumers. These licenses will only be released from early 2020 and the requirements for such companies would be having a business plan in place, responsible for the cultivation, quality control, packaging, transport, etc. The experiment in question is no simply undertaking. Here is an outline of the facts and what will take place to achieve this temporary experiment: Currently, the Netherlands has 573 coffee shops spread over the 103 municipalities that allow them. The experiment w
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