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Amsterdam Excluded From Netherlands’s Legal Cannabis Experiment (www.forbes.com)

submitted 4 months ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] baru@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

With weed, what the Dutch model tries to achieve is to not punish people for smoking weed, but also not turn it into a for-profit industry that would create an incentive to get more people addicted.

It's more that there's a lot of conservative parties that do not agree on the drug policy. E.g. enough Christian parties who would rather be more restrictive.

[–] taladar@feddit.de 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Alcohol producers are probably lobbying against it too.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is the reason that legalization in Belgium isn't even remotely on the table. AB Inbev practically writes the law here.

[–] TwoCubed@feddit.de 2 points 4 months ago

I regularly have to work with them. They are worse than Hitler. Fuck ABI.