Netherlands To Kick Off Legal Cannabis Sale Pilot Program

By Dario Sabaghi, Forbes on February 27, 2023

The Netherlands plans to launch a pilot program to experiment with the legal sale of cannabis by the end of this year.

Although the country is known to be the European heaven for cannabis users due to its tolerance policy towards the so-called “soft drugs,” the cultivation of cannabis is still illegal in the Netherlands. But a pilot program expected to start by the end of this year could pave the way toward a full legal sale of cannabis.

The Ministries of Public Health and Justice in the Netherlands announced on February 22 the launch of a preliminary phase of the Wietexperiment (Weed Experiment in English).

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