Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Amsterdam
city council
coffee shops
criminality
cultivation
freedom
Groenlinks
industry
Ivo Opstelten
legalization
legislation
Marieke van Doorninck
Minister of Justice
Quality
supervision
supply
vote
weed
Wednesday, 3 April 2013 - 16:34
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Legalize Cultivation of Weed?

The city council of Amsterdam wants to legalize the cultivation of weed. Doing so would reduce criminality in the supply of coffee shops. Also, because selling soft drugs is legal but growing is not, it would make Dutch legislation more logical. Parool.nl reports that Amsterdam joins municipalities like Groningen, Utrecht and Rotterdam, which insisted on the legalization before. The leader of political party Groenlinks, Marieke van Doorninck, said that municipalities do not have to cultivate weed themselves. “But when it’s legal, we could control the quality and supervise the industry.” The government parties will vote on Wednesday for the freedom of municipalities to regulate weed cultivation themselves. The chance that Amsterdam will liberalize the current policies is small since Minister of Justice, Ivo Opstelten, is not a proponent.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Police catch second man during investigation into three fatal Rotterdam shootings
  • Up to 30 years in jail for duo convicted of gruesome 2021 murders in Amsterdam, Lieshout
  • Dozens of MPs say goodbye today, as early Cabinet formation talks continue
  • Rabobank outage showing customers they have €0 in their accounts
  • "Wokewashing" to "hittefit": Voting opens for Van Dale's word of the year
  • Dutch kids reading, maths, and science skills declining: OECD

Top stories

  • Police catch second man during investigation into three fatal Rotterdam shootings
  • First responders got stuck in traffic on the way A1 accident in which two girls died
  • At least 1,000 votes from Dutch abroad arrived too late
  • Nine people with Dutch ties leave Gaza Strip
  • Journalist snaps pic of Omtzigt's Cabinet formation note: Low interest in PVV, BBB, NSC deal
  • Boris Johnson allegedly planned military raid on Dutch Covid-19 vaccine factory

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content