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It's that same kind of underestimating from people here that lead to this point. The point where coffeeshops are being closed, growers with just a handful of plants are raided, in a few months 15% THC and higher may be considered hard drugs (testing equipment will be illegal, but new tolerance policy within the tolerance policy allows coffeeshops to have test gear in the the shop...). People who drive under the influence of alcohol and drugs will get insane high fines (since they can't accurately test MJ use, they decided if you even add a drop of alcohol...). Smoking in amsterdam and having 'a' beer, or 'a' wine will no longer be an option unless I take the train back.Really. Sounds like a feel-good stop measure to me.
Phillips already pulled out the cannabis industry (not effectively though) about 8 months ago - on national television, showing how much money they made from it over the years. http://www.hortidaily.com/article/6254/Philips-stops-selling-lamps-to-cannabis-growers-employees-threatened-at-home That's from Feb, note the last line: "Legally it isn't forbidden to supply to the weed industry. Currently a legislation to criminalize this is in the making. " Well, that legislation is up for vote in a few days.
Cops, energy companies, housing services, and IRS have task forces per region. In some areas, the frigging army is used to help raid mj growers. They also have a "shame" -policy, which means that when a grower is raided the cops will hang posters on the windows with big fat letters that a "hemp grow" has been removed. The plants are chopped up in a machine, the grow gear is destroyed, carbon filters filled with isolation foam and possessions such as cars etc get a huge sticker with "growing hemp doesn't pay", and are confiscated.
I posted it in another forum with an ongoing discussion about it and they probably thought I was trolling We're fucked, proper fucked, it's almost game over for the (legal-ish) cannabis industry in the Netherlands. The proposed laws and changes already have a majority. The voting is just a formality (our senate rarely goes against the leading cabinet).
There is one person here who mentioned (on TV, something about Uruguay ) he knows it will be legalized here, as in having inside information. That someone is Arjan from GHS...