Marijuana, not only for medicinal use

For several years I’ve lived in the Netherlands, and for the people that still don’t know: marijuana is illegal there. But only de iure. Because of the so called “gedoogbeleid” (policy of toleration), the posession and growth of small quantities of the stuff is not prosecuted.

In praxis the drugs are only sold in coffeeshops. This also is subject to the gedoogbeleid, meaning it’s illegal but tolerated. Any self respecting Dutch city has at least one coffeeshop, not just Amsterdam.

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