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> Mel
Rowing <mel.rowing@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>On May 3, 7:52=A0am, Dr John Watson <drj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>wrote:
>> "As ex****t product, Dutch cannabis comes second or third after
cu***bers
>> and tomatoes. Germany and the United Kingdom are big customers," said
>> police commissioner Max Daniel, responsible for combating the
>> organised crime behind cannabis-growing.
>>
>> Although police destroy 15 cannabis nurseries daily, the raids have no
>> effect on the supply but only on the price of the cannabis. The growers
>> want compensation for the bigger chance of being caught in the price
they
>> get for their grass. And the tax service benefits from this too, the
>> re****tage reveals.
>I thought the whole point of legalisation (or regulation as they
>prefer to call it) is to remove the criminal element fromthe supply
>chain?
Absolutely. And that would hold in The Netherlands as well were it
actually
legal to grow cannabis and sell it in large quantities.
It is legal to possess cannabis in small quantities, to use cannabis, and
I
believe it is legal to sell in small quantities, but possessing large
quantities (such as what a supplier or coffeeshop would have on hand) and
growing cannabis and selling more than personal use amounts remains
illegal
in The Netherlands (anyone with better knowledge than I have should
correct
me, but that's my understanding).
The police and local governments basically turn a blind eye, but make
occasional busts of growers and suppliers. And I believe smuggling of
cannabis into the country is treated harshly, and it is illegal to bring
in
cannabis from outside the country.
In The Netherlands cannabis is closer to legal than any other first-world
country, but it still isn't legal in the sense that alcohol and tobacco
is.
-Pete Zakel
(phz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
)
"SOFTWARE -- formal evening attire for female computer analysts."
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