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A dispute over the definition of cannabis accompanied the expansion of Dutch hashish imports. Stephen Snelders describes a year of litigation ending with September 1972 sentences for three Rotterdam businessmen.
The Hague court held that hashish fell under the Opium Act even when it could not be proved to have been made from dried cannabis tops. Two defendants received eighteen months and one nine months. The case concerned a 110 kg seizure the previous year.
The chapter treats this as an early sign of larger criminal enterprises entering the trade. We record the interpretation as enforcement context for the Netherlands. The chapter does not reproduce the judgment or give a case number, so this account is attributed to Snelders rather than presented as a separately verified judicial holding. It does not establish the start of the national prohibition.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Netherlands here.
References
- Cannabis, Counterculture, and Criminals: The Rise of Smuggling in the Netherlands, ca. 1962–1976Stephen Snelders · In Cannabis: Global Histories, edited by Lucas Richert, James H. Mills · MIT Press · 2021 · pp. 261–262 · ISBN 9780262366137
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