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The legal status of weed in the Netherlands and Amsterdam: What does the law actually permit?

The Cannigma

Under Netherlands law, soft drugs include hash, marijuana, sleeping pills, and sedatives, among others. The number of coffee shops across the county has been in decline in recent years, from 730 in 2005 to 570 in 2019. What does Dutch law permit for medical patients? Is weed legal in the Netherlands? Average costs.

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

Cannabis Law Report

However, the nature of the government regulations and the subsequent complexity of prescribing, as well as doctors’ safety uncertainties and the stigma of the plant, remain contributing barriers to patient access. It was also used as a topical treatment for haemorrhoids, ear infection, and wounds (Aldrich 1997 ; Touw 1981 ).

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Shemshemet: Cannabis in Ancient Egypt

SpeedWeed

They retted the stems and twisted the fibers into sturdy ropes and ground the plant to make a soothing eyewash, a treatment they recorded in the medical papyri. Both eyes of the patient are to be washed with it in the morning.”. Hash was very common as was opium” (Zias, 2005). Fragments of the the Ramesseum III papyrus.