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In June 2011, the Lower House of the Dutch government approved a plan by the Minister of Security and Justice for a membership card system allowing only residents of Holland to enter coffeeshops and purchase cannabis.
With a strongly conservative government running Holland for the first time in many years, lawmakers have begun restricting some decades-old freedoms:
- In April 2011, the Dutch Supreme Court handed down a ruling that home cannabis growers with even a single plant will face prosecution if they do not immediately give up their plant(s) to police who come knocking.
It used to be that home growers were allowed to have up to five plants for personal use without worrying about the authorities. Not anymore.
- Magic mushrooms were made illegal in 2008.
- The Red Light District was shrunk by a third in size in the last three years.
- The Dutch town of Heerlen went ahead with a scheduled ban on the smoking of cannabis in July 2011. Just smoking cannabis is now illegal there!
Many of Amsterdam’s cannabis coffeeshops have been ordered to close by the current conservative government, the most conservative in many years.
It seems only a matter of time before cannabis is completely re-criminalized in Amsterdam.
So if you’ve never experienced the spectacle that is the Cannabis Cup, THIS MAY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE!!!
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