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NL: Dutch Cabinet Approves Medical Use Of Marijuana
Reuters
Thursday 18 Oct 2001 AMSTERDAM, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The Netherlands, famous for its permissive attitude towards drug use, on Friday became the second country after Canada to allow medical use of marijuana. Marijuana use is widely tolerated in the Netherlands in "coffee shops," but is not legal. The Dutch cabinet agreed on Friday to change the law to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana and chemists to supply it, Health Ministry spokesman Bas Kuik told Reuters. "People with painful diseases such as AIDS are going to coffee shops, but there is no doctor who is controlling the use," he said. The Bureau for Medicinal Cannabis will supervise the growing of marijuana, its quality control and distribution. Talks are to be arranged on the plans with the International Narcotics Control Board of the United Nations. No exact date has been set for the programme's launch as it was not yet clear how long preparations would take, Kuik said. In July, Canada became the first country in the world to allow terminally ill patients to grow and smoke their own marijuana. Canada said the move would improve the quality of life of patients suffering serious pain from conditions such as multiple sclerosis, cancer and arthritis.
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