The Great Dutch Cannabis Experiment

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• JI

  @jimmyjawbone · 1 month ago

  Here in Nova Scotia, I was visiting my neighbour last night, he has a few nice bushes, I have a few, my cousin does as well. All three of us stood in his yard smoking a government pre-roll admiring his plants, all nice and legal. Ten years ago we’d be on our fifth beer. No hangover this morning, my wife is happy cause I washed the car when I got home.

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• SH

  @shotbyogcody · 1 month ago

  “We are simply Dutch bakery” 😭

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• RO

  @RogierYou · 1 month ago

  Please put a €1 refund on the  pre made joint  packages ! These things are littering all our streets 😡

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• OR

  @organizacijasjeverac8210 · 1 month ago

  I can only imagine smell of that facility

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• JT

  @jtf2dan · 1 month ago

  CANADA: "What?...the dutch are experimenting with legalizing pot?  Hold my beer!"

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• LU

  @LuxuryNoCap · 1 month ago

  I need some of that What The Fuck 😂

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  @37BopCity · 1 month ago (edited)

  The Netherlands was the first country to recognize that the dangers of cannabis were grossly exaggerated, particularly by the USA.    Anyone who travelled to Amsterdam in the past few decades and visited the pot stores and pot cafes, immediately discovered that they were totally normal, extremely civilized and enjoyable, and no less of a threat to society than a neighbourhood coffee shop or beer pub.  As someone who grew up in North America in the '60s and '70s, when insane American marijuana laws in places like Texas could sometimes get people 30 years in prison for simple possession ---  see the infamous case of a black man named Lee Otis Johnson in 1968 ----- what the Netherlands did was a wonderful thing.  Today pot is legal practically everywhere, just like beer and alcohol, and that's the way it should be.  I have great respect for the smart, civilized people of the Netherlands who were pioneers in  making sane cannabis laws possible almost everywhere in the world today.

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• NG

  @NGL4YOU · 1 month ago

  In the Netherlands, the peak number of coffeeshops was in 1990, with approximately 2,000 shops.<br>This declined rapidly due to stricter regulations, leaving only 800 remaining by the year 2000.

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• RB

  @Rbee-t1i · 3 weeks ago

  I&apos;ve been working in a legal cannabis farm for 7 years now , it only smells good late in the flower &nbsp;stage growing indoor on this scale actually has some serious health effects you never want to stay in the rooms long because of the high moisture the job isn&apos;t recommended for anyone with respiratory issues or who have allergies once you get past that it&apos;s extremely fun but hard work you&apos;re basically a farmer spending all day de leafing , watering , checking environmentals, cleaning filters, the Best days are when you make clones and harvest, there is no easy day it&apos;s hard labor and you would be surprised how everything is hand trimmed, you&apos;re constantly bringing down a harvest, and moving plants from the nursery to the flower room , where I live it&apos;s been legal for a decade now it&apos;s been fun watching the industry grow and evolve from only having delivery to legalizing dispensaries hell I remember you could only go into a dispensary if you had a doctor&apos;s recommendation and license haha oh how time flys and things change

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• JO

  @josephschuster · 1 month ago (edited)

  When I first visited The Bulldog in Amsterdam coffee shop &nbsp;in the 80s, it was considered an adventure &nbsp;Now there are 40 legal cannabis shops within 5 miles of my home in Los Angeles.

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• WA

  @wampwamp1773 · 1 month ago

  By them dropping it down to 4 suppliers they are also making it easier to control and manipulate the market. They shut out smaller suppliers who aren&apos;t the 4 also. Government always ruins thimgs. Eventually.

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• FR

  @freddyb2k4l47 · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slsd3_cWbfI&amp;t=328">5:28</a> that’s a good company motto 😂

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