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Netherlands To Kick Off Legal Cannabis Sale Pilot Program

Dario Sabaghi

Forbes

Monday 27 Feb 2023

The Netherlands plans to launch a pilot program to experiment with the legal sale of cannabis by the end of this year.

Although the country is known to be the European heaven for cannabis users due to its tolerance policy towards the so-called “soft drugs,” the cultivation of cannabis is still illegal in the Netherlands. But a pilot program expected to start by the end of this year could pave the way toward a full legal sale of cannabis.

The Ministries of Public Health and Justice in the Netherlands announced on February 22 the launch of a preliminary phase of the Wietexperiment (Weed Experiment in English).

This pilot program is set to begin in the fourth quarter of this year, which falls between October and December 2023, and will involve the municipalities of Tilburg and Breda, located in the southern region of the country.

"Together with Minister [of Justice] Yesilgoz-Zegerius, I am committed to making the cannabis experiment successful. I also sense enthusiasm among all participants and am therefore pleased that we can take a first smaller step here even before the official start of the experiment," Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said in a press statement.

Dutch coffee shops are licensed by local councils to sell cannabis products, but they obtain their supply from the illegal market. Therefore, the goal of the experiment is to eliminate this gray area and reduce the associated nuisance and criminal activity.

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