New grow shop law- Netherlands

Netherlands votes for growshop law, supplying growers now punishable by jail sentences up to 3 years

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by Mauro - Nov 11, 2014
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Today a majority of the Dutch Senate voted for the so-called growshop law, essentially prohibiting the supply, preparation and facilitating of illegal cannabis grows.


November 11, 2014 – Today a majority of the Dutch Senate voted for the so-called growshop law, essentially prohibiting the supply, preparation and facilitation of illegal cannabis grows.

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Growshops will now have to operate more discretely if they want to continue their business.

Dutch citizens with potential criminal penalties has now grown disproportionally

It is already illegal to grow cannabis in the Netherlands, but now also supplying (even water cans and regular soil) and preparations (electrical construction for example) is illegal and punishable, depending on the size and personal vs commercial grows, by jail sentences up to 3 years.

Depending on your local municipality and local police officer growing up to 5 plants can still be tolerated however, again pointing out the hypocrisy of the Dutch laws.

Through passing this law, the amount of Dutch citizens with potential criminal penalties has now grown disproportionally. It remains to be seen how this will play out in court, as legal experts have expressed serious doubts on the burden of proof.

The usual suspects PVV (Geert Wilders Party), VVD (Liberals), CDA (Christian Democrats Party), Christenunie (Christian Part) and the Onafhankelijke Senataats Fractie (Independents) voted for passage, while PVDA (Socialist Party), Groenlinks (Green Party) D66 (Liberal Democrats), 50+ (Elderly Party), Partij voor de Dieren (Animal Party) voted against.

Added below is a statement of VOC-Nederland spokesperson Derrick Bergman:

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YW mate, jus saw it on another site this morning so thought id post it up lol

Wow! That sucks. And I thought that we had it tough in the US.

Not quite sure how to properly express how I am feeling about this, but I feel for all of my UK/Netherland brothers & sisters! Good luck to you all

Fucking crazy. I was in Hoorn, North Holland in August. Googled the local grow shop and found two. First one I visited had closed down and the second one was miles out of town and really shite. Had a chat with the owner and he said the law was expected to change to something like the coffee shops ie not close to schools etc. I bet a load of shops will now spring up along the Belgian border

It is kind of odd that the first place to have legal marijuana is going in the other direction just as the rest of the world is starting to embrace it.