Weed isnt legal here either. You can buy it and smoke it, but you cant grow it. Thank god it just magically appears in coffeeshops otherwise we'd be screwed.
We have a whole industry here around cannabis that employ's thousands of pple. Its been part of dutch culture for 400 years, dating back to the 1600's when dutch sailors smoked there cannabis in one the Amsterdam's 'koffiehuizen'. Anywayz, politicians here been tip toeing around the subject for the last 30-40 years, now under pressure from the EU parlement, they will never legalize. Countries like France would see us close all the shops and get rid of it all, but that wont happen either. So its a standoff, nothing changes. Funny thing, while most countries have major drug problems that have grown by a 1000% in the last 10 years, we dont have that problem.
I'm fine with it tho, it may aswell be legal cos you wont know the differnce when you come here.