It's an old post but since I'm dutch, I would still like to comment

- A misconception is, that growing 5 plants is actually legal in Holland while it's not. Cannabis is still illegal to grow, smoke, possess. What we do have, is an arrangement where justice will not take legal action (but they COULD if they WANT technically) with a certain number of plants.

- The ranges are actually 1-5, 6-999, 1000+. !000+ will get you a nice pension/hotel with television etc for a couple of years. Anything below, you wil most likely get away with a fine. No judge will be impressed about having 1000+ plants divided up per 5 since it's still illegal.

- Grandscale growers will indeed do everything they can to avoid detection. Small growers with 1 or 2 lamps, will take care of the smell using filters but thats all. It's very hard to see the difference with a helicopter between a washdryer and a 400W HPS I'm being told.

- I've never heard or seen someone bury his room in the garden but it sounds like a nice solution

- Shutting down power grids, I wonder how that would help them find growers since most largescale growers steal electricity and secondly, the meters to measure how much electricity is used per household, are actually inside the houses. Still they may be able to figure it out. I've never heard about this before.

- Amsterdam mAND the Netherlands make a distinction between soft and harddrugs. All drugs are illegal, some drugs are tolerated. This has caused even more unjust laws than in more restrictive countries.

Examples:

Psilocybin is illegal, psilocybin mushrooms are illegal and considered harddrugs. Dried mushrooms are considered hard drugs which is completely crazy once you realize that when drying mushrooms, potency actually drops.

You are allowed to smoke weed, buy weed, possess weed (up untill a fixed amount), you are allowed to sell weed (as a coffeeshop, max 5 grams per customer per transaction) but......a coffeeshop is NOT allowed to BUY weed.

Some people believe, little gnomes supply all coffeeshops at night since the good stuff has to come from SOMEWHERE right ?


- Cannabis use is not accepted in Holland. If you smoke cannabis, you are considered a lower life than the more educated people who limite their druguse to tobacco, coffee, sugar and alcohol. Most people keep silent about their cannabis consumption. Some people, like me, feel that keeping quite about it is having negative effects and we choose to be open about it.

- The doktor -> If you buy equipment from growshops and it fails, sometimes they will indeed send a specialist who will be blindfolded and taken to the growing space.

But believe me, Holland is great, I've lived in France for two years and learned all aspects of paranoia during that time
HeartCore Reviewed by HeartCore on . Tales of Amsterdam Hello friends, I was speaking with an old school buddy of mine, and he's living over in Amsterdam now (he's visiting for xMas). I was asking him about 20 questions per minute about everything. I'd like to share with you some of the interesting things he told me: -- In Amsterdam, you can grow whatever you want... max 5 plants per person, per household. Max of 20 plants per household. He went into a huge greenhouse where what the growers did was put the name of a person for every 5 Rating: 5