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The government should give municipalities no room for autonomy in carrying cannabis cultivation. A number of municipalities to experiment with the production of cannabis for coffeeshops, but a majority of the House supported a motion by Christian Democrat parliamentarian Peter Oskam calling on the government to stop.
The government is against any form of regulation, let Former Minister Ivo Opstelten (Security, VVD) know the end of last year. Dozens of municipalities had requested in a call to him to clarify. One question was: would the minister allow rural regulated cannabis cultivation? If not, local authorities wanted to experiment with legal cannabis cultivation. Only then can the illegal trade could be addressed in accordance with them.
Municipalities like Utrecht, Eindhoven, Heerlen, Nijmegen and Rotterdam already started to explore the possibilities for municipal recreational marijuana growing, reports news agency. Opstelten said in December that national regulation was not the answer. The demand for cannabis comes under the Minister who especially from abroad: an estimated 80 percent of the marijuana grown in the Netherlands would be destined for export and not for coffee shops. But the experiment of municipalities remained unclear.
Small majority
Oskam wants the cabinet to give municipalities “no space” to bring the surveyed plans into practice. A slight majority of 75 MPs agreed with him, 70 voted against the motion.
Unlike a majority of the elected representatives, local authorities think that regulating does lead to less crime. Mayor Paul Depla Breda is disappointed. The current policy is unsustainable, he told Reuters.
“The Chamber thus does not answer the question of how it should be.”
Depla is, including his previous role as mayor of Heerlen, closely involved in the investigation of regulated cannabis cultivation and research just goes according to him. Heerlen is first in the top ten municipalities with the culling of cannabis farms.
One way or
Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb of Rotterdam regrets the outcome of the vote. That motion narrowly adopted demonstrates according to him that the Chamber at this point is just as divided as society.
“As a church we can not do anything if the legislator does not give us the room. We go with the municipalities discuss how to proceed. We remain committed to allow regulated marijuana cultivation “
The Dutch soft drugs policy is characterized for decades by the same contradiction: sell weed and may use;. Cannabis production is not allowed. Recently there was quite a breakthrough in the case. Two marijuana growers in Groningen last year, although convicted, but received no punishment. This leaves as mayor Depla see that there are “multiple ways”, apart from the political to achieve regulation.
Summer last year showed the Limburg ‘coffeeshop municipalities’ know they want to provoke a test case to be regulated cannabis plantations make. Depla said then that not the minister, but the judge has the last word when it comes to regulating cannabis production.
“The question is no longer whether it is regulated, but when. And a rule of law is the judge who decides whether something is illegal or not “
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