Legal weed experiment kicks off in 10 Dutch towns and cities

From Monday, 80 cannabis cafés, or coffee shops in 10 Dutch local authority areas will only sell marijuana from licenced growers, as the main part of a lengthy experiment with regulating production kicks off. Arnhem, Almere, Breda, Groningen, Heerlen, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Tilburg, Voorne aan Zee and Zaanstad are taking part in the experiment, which is set to run until 2029. The aim of the experiment, first mooted in 2018, is to assess if licencing marijuana production has an impact on...