DutchNews, November 8, 2016
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VVD leaders in the south of the Netherlands are
proposing an overhaul of cannabis laws to regulate cultivation, decriminalising
what is currently a grey area: smoking is tolerated but growing is not.
The AD
reports on Tuesday that a group of liberal party council leaders from major
cities in Brabant will propose regulating cannabis cultivation at the VVD
autumn congress in Noordwijkerhout this weekend.
Seven local party leaders told
the paper that they want the VVD’s manifesto for the general election in March
2017 to take a clear stance on cannabis growing, rather than ignoring the
issue.
Criminal world
‘Since there is nothing in the manifesto, we have handed
in this motion,’ said Thijs van Kessel, VVD party leader in Oss. ‘We don’t want
to have blinders on any more. The weed problem is larger than ever, and
cannabis cultivation has grown into an entire industry. If you just scrape the
surface, you see the relationship between the criminal and outside world.’
The
group leader in Den Bosch, Ralph Geerts, added that: ‘Something must be done
because criminality is having huge negative effects.’ Meanwhile Thierry
Aartsen, parliamentary leader in Breda said: ‘Brabant is now the weed barn of
the Netherlands.’
But the issue is seen as a hot potato in Mark Rutte’s party,
currently in government and leading in the polls. A conference vote, reports
AD, is decisive, but in the last week the liberal party in Amsterdam and The
Hague have voted against regulating growing.
‘Fear of voter’
The motion, which
will be handed in by the southern VVD on November 19th, reads: ‘Supplying
coffee shops should be removed from criminality, making it possible to ensure
the quality of the end product. We will tackle illegal growers firmly.’
Rutger
de Ridder, president of the JOVD youth movement affiliated with the party,
initiated the stand against current soft drugs policy, telling the AD that the
party must grasp the bull by the horns but adding: ‘They are afraid of the
traditional voter.’
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