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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Netherlands: VVD changes sides on marijuana cultivation, clears way for regulation 🌿Netherlands: VVD changes sides on marijuana cultivation, clears way for regulation
A majority of members of the ruling right-wing VVD want a change in the party’s policy towards legalised marijuana cultivation.
At the party congress this weekend, a majority of members voted to end the ‘strange situation’ in which the sale of small quantities of marijuana in licenced coffee shops throughout the Netherlands is accepted but production is not.
VVD ministers and MPs have consistently rejected calls for any form of regulated cultivation to remove the grey area between criminal growers and licenced sellers. The initiative for change came from a number of prominent members in the south of the country, where illegal marijuana cultivation is rife and drugs gang violence common.
The commitment to ‘clever regulation’ of cultivation and sales will now appear in the party’s manifesto for the 2017 general election and clears the way for a shift in the policy of the next government, commentators...
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