In Break With Past Policy, Dutch Mayor Allows Cannabis Patients to Grow at Home
The mayor of Tilburg, the sixth-largest city in the Netherlands, has indicated that authorities will allow residents who rely on medicinal cannabis to grow up to five plants for personal use without fear of prosecution. The move is a clean break with existing policy, under which medical growers face evictions and seizure of their plants.
Mayor Peter Noordanus announced the news in a letter to local patient organization PGMCG (Patients Group Medicinal Cannabis Users). Marian Hutten, chairwoman of the group, called the official permission an “excellent, cool step of the mayor.”
“If this mayor allows it,” she told local TV station Omroep Brabant, “it should be allowed in other cities as well.”
Not surprisingly, there are a few restrictions. Medicinal users must be adults, have medical certification and a fire-safe home, and grow no more than five plants with a maximum height of three meters. Still, it’s a big...
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