Tag: Netherlands


Amsterdam Doubles Down On Plans To Restrict Tourist Access To Cannabis Coffee Shops


When international tourists finally return to the canal-lined historic streets of Amsterdam, one of the city’s main travel attractions might be off limits. Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has proposed a new policy that would ban foreign visitors from accessing the city’s coffee shops. There are 166 cannabis coffee shops in Amsterdam, accounting for almost 30% of the Netherlands’ coffee shops. – Read the entire article at CNN .


Mother Fears Son Could Die As Brexit Stops Medical Cannabis Supply


Government gives two weeks notice that access to epilepsy treatment for nine-year-old Alfie Dingley will end. The mother of a nine-year-old boy with a rare and severe form of epilepsy has told how she fears her son could die after the government announced his supply of a life-changing cannabis medicine from the Netherlands would stop because of Brexit. Hannah Deacon was given just two weeks notice by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)…


Medical Cannabis Patients Need No Longer Travel To Netherlands For Medication


Delivery service established in April due to Covid-19 to be made permanent. Patients who are prescribed medical cannabis products will no longer need to travel to the Netherlands to collect their medication, the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said. A delivery service from the Netherlands to Ireland to assist patients of licensed clinicians in obtaining their prescribed cannabis products, which was established in April 2020 on a temporary basis due to the Covid-19 restrictions…


Dutch Panic Buyers Queue Round the Block for Cannabis


Cannabis panic buyers were queueing round the block in the Netherlands to stock up on weed before a nationwide shut down. he Dutch government decided to lockdown the country on Sunday to stop the spread of coronavirus, and it sparked an immediate response from drug users. Queues steadily formed outside the famous ‘coffee shops’ – where cannabis can be legally bought – across the country. Some panic buyers waited all day to get their hands…