Topic: DRUGS - on June 5, 2013 at 5:59:00 PM CEST
Dutch cannabis coffee shop owners win partial victory
Coffee shop owners promised payout over crackdown on cannabis, but were warned other drug moves would remain
A Dutch court has ordered the government to compensate owners of cannabis-selling cafes who say they are losing money because of measures to stamp out drug tourism.
But in a setback for owners of so-called coffee shops, The Hague district court ruling also said other moves to prevent foreigners from buying soft drugs in the Netherlands were legitimate.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 5, 2013 at 4:45:00 PM CEST
High Country: A Mind-Melting Journey Through the Silicon Valley of Weed (Part 1)
Matt Ellis doesn’t smoke weed. He simply doesn’t enjoy being stoned. The all-too-familiar itch of paranoia that follows a few deep rips of cannabis is enough to keep him from using. But that’s not to say he doesn’t enjoy—or maybe even need—weed. It’s in the one green that he sees gobs of the other.
“At the end of the day, it’s about making money,” says Ellis, whose Denver-based biomass extraction company is one of countless others riding a wave of high tech innovation in the wake of recent measures in Colorado and Washington state legalizing small amounts of weed for recreational use. “I mean, I want to help people, don’t get me wrong," Ellis tells me, referring to a medicinal pot industry brimming with new and diffuse cannabis-concentrate highs that his company, ExtractionTek Solutions, is poised to capitalize on. “But we gotta make a living.”
motherboard.vice.com High Country: A Mind-Melting Journey Through the Silicon Valley of Weed (Part 2)
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