Netherlands lockdown coffee shops license#

Netherlands lockdown coffee shops license#

Mellow Yellow coffeeshop in Amsterdam (which closed in 2017) was the first to obtain a license from the City of Amsterdam in 1972. 27, 2021 Tourists hoping to light up a joint in one of Amsterdam’s famed coffee shops after the coronavirus pandemic passes are likely to be disappointed. If you’re wondering why they are called coffeeshops, the name derives from the semi-secret drug trade in cafés in the early 1970s. Note that coffeeshops only sell cannabis products while ‘smart shops’ legally sell psychoactive truffles (not magic mushrooms which are prohibited).

13, closing restaurants except for takeaway services and forbidding the sale of alcohol and marijuana after 8 p.m. In the latest phase of the Dutch lockdown. The government ordered a partial lockdown on Oct. For example, Amsterdam’s policy has seen the number of coffeeshops decrease in recent years. Fellow comedian Sanne Wallis De Vries is asking theatres up and down the country to sign up and join their haircut theatre scheme on the same day. Dutch government to relax some lockdown rules. The weed industry is a big tourist draw in the Netherlands as well as a significant business, with legal sales estimated by various studies at roughly 1 billion euros (1.1 billion) a year. Halverwege maart gaat Nederland in gedeeltelijke lockdown en sluiten horeca, scholen en kinderopvang. For example, customers must be 18 years or over, there is a limit of five grams per person per day, coffeeshops are not allowed to sell alcohol, they must have a valid permit, and the shop can have a maximum of 500 grams in stock at a time.Įach region can set restrictions on the way that coffeeshops are run in their area. Sources from The Hague have revealed that the Dutch government plans to reopen non-essential shops, gyms and higher education on Saturday, but that the hospitality industry will remain closed for the time being. In maart 2020 maakt het kabinet de eerste algemene maatregelen bekend om het coronavirus te bestrijden zoals de handen wassen, in de elleboog niezen, en geen handen meer schudden. Although drugs including cannabis are illegal under the Dutch Opium Act, a tolerance policy (‘ gedoogbeleid’ in Dutch) means that the law is not enforced providing that certain regulations are followed.