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21st June 2022
Netherlands: An amendment clarifying requirements for coffee shop owners and experimental cannabis growers has come into effect after being published last week in the Government Gazette. The changes concern the amount of unsealed cannabis that can be seen and smelled by a coffee shop customer before a purchase is made.
20th June 2022
Netherlands: The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) is currently investigating whether the classification of drugs under the Opium Act is still appropriate, media reports. The study is expected to be completed by the end of 2022. However, it is not yet clear how re-classification might affect cannabis policy.
13th June 2022
Netherlands: Health minister Ernst Kuipers has announced that the first cannabis plants were planted last week as part of the national cannabis experiment, media reports. It remains unclear whether all ten cannabis trial growers have now been officially selected.
10th June 2022
- Sweden: An administrative court in Stockholm ruled in favour of the Medical Products Agency that banned a Dutch company from selling CBD-containing products through online sales, local media reports. The administrative court rejected the appeal of the Dutch company and considered that the Medical Products Agency has the right to ban the sale of CBD-containing products without a medical market authorisation.
9th June 2022
- Netherlands: Today, a committee debate is to be held in the Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives, lower chamber of the parliament) on the medicines policy, among other things, with the evaluation of the Office of Medical Cannabis (OMC), media reports. Recently, the minister of health, welfare and sport Ernst Kuipers proposed in a letter to Parliament an amendment to the medicinal cannabis policy to reduce the role of the Office of Medical Cannabis (OMC). The Opium Act will have to be amended for this. Currently, the OMC has a monopoly on supplying medical cannabis to pharmacies.
7th June 2022
- Netherlands: The Institute for Medicinal Cannabis is organising the first symposium on medicinal cannabis in collaboration with the Office of Medicinal Cannabis (OMC) tomorrow, 8th June, in the Hague. The aim of the symposium is to “bring together parties in the Netherlands that come into direct or indirect contact with medicinal cannabis”.
1st June 2022
- Netherlands: In a letter to parliament, Ernst Kuipers – the minister of health, welfare and sport – has proposed a change to the medical cannabis policy to reduce the role of the Office of Medical Cannabis (OMC), media reports. The Opium Act will have to be amended for this. Currently, the OMC has a monopoly on supplying medical cannabis to pharmacies.
13th May 2022
- Netherlands: Yesterday, the parliamentary Justice and Security Committee met to discuss, among other things, the progress of the closed coffee shop chain cannabis experiment, the start of which was recently delayed to 2023, media reports. In the meeting, Ernst Kuipers, minister of health, welfare and sport, said that until now they had assumed the experiment would start with all municipalities at the same time, but perhaps that would change. It is likely that the municipalities of Breda and Tilburg will be the first to start the experiment, but no decision has yet been taken on this. The ministry also said it is in conversation with an eleventh grower.
27th April 2022
- Netherlands: On 12th May, the parliamentary Justice and Security Committee will meet to discuss, among other things, the progress of the closed coffee shop chain cannabis experiment, which has recently been delayed and will most likely properly start in 2023, media reports.
31st March 2022
- Netherlands: The closed coffeeshop chain experiment has been postponed until the second quarter of 2023, media reports. The minister of public health and the minister of justice and security said that the first half of 2023 will be the point "when the quantity, quality, and diversity" of the legally grown cannabis is sufficient to supply the participating coffee shops with enough stock. The process of selecting the growers is apparently "taking longer than expected".
14th March 2022
- Netherlands: Aardachtig company has announced it obtained a licence to legally grow cannabis and to produce recreational cannabis products as part of the Closed Coffeeshop Chain Experiment, media reports. In November 2021, it was officially announced that seven out of ten selected growers were appointed. For the moment, it is unclear whether Aardachtig belongs to those seven or is the eighth grower.
