Dutch cannabis growers welcome expansion of scheme to legalise sales
The Netherlands has expanded a government-run initiative allowing legal cannabis sales.
While growing cannabis is still illegal, cannabis shops — known as coffeeshops — in 10 municipalities will be allowed to sell marijuana from 10 licensed producers.
"Weed was sold here legally for 50 years but the production was never legal. So it's finally time to end that crazy, unexplainable situation and make it a legal professional sector," Rick Bakker, commercial director at Hollandse Hoogtes, one of the regulated producers, said.
Around 80 coffeeshops are taking part in the experiment which advocates hope will ultimately end a long-standing legal anomaly; you can buy and sell small amounts of weed without fear of prosecution in the Netherlands but growing it commercially remains illegal.
Bakker's company in Bemmel, near the German border, is indistinguishable from the surrounding greenhouses producing tomatoes and peppers.
But it makes 200 kilograms of weed per week and is one of the largest producers in the experiment.
A trailblazer in decriminalizing pot since the 1970s, the Netherlands has grown more conservative.
Amsterdam, long a magnet for marijuana smokers, has been closing coffeeshops in recent years and has banned smoking weed on some of the cobbled streets that make up its historic centre.
Advocates have been pushing for a legal growing for years, citing the safety of the product as well as concerns about crime.
Benjamin Selma, the head grower at Hollandse Hoogtes who worked in cannabis production in California for more than a decade, said the quality control for the cannabis is extremely high.
"We do a full test, microbial, cannabinoid, terpene, as well as yeast and anaerobic bacteria, heavy metals as well. So it's very, very controlled," he said.
The company, which does not use pesticides and tightly regulates growing conditions, also has an eye on the environment.
The production facility gets its energy from solar panels and uses biodegradable packaging.
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