DutchNews.nl,
Wednesday 11 September 2013
Utrecht
city council is pressing ahead with two projects involving cannabis: one based
on a private cultivation club and one to supply marijuana to people with
psychiatric problems.
The health ministry
is to supply medicinal cannabis for an experiment which will deliver hashish to
80 people with psychiatric problems, the council said on Wednesday.
The
experiment revolves around the type of cannabis which suppresses anxiety,
insomnia and psychotic attacks, city alderman Victor Everhardt said in a
statement.
This will
be given to people who are not responding to treatment for their chronic
problems which may be connected to their heavy cannabis use, Everhardt said.
Club
The other
experiment involves setting up a ‘social cannabis club’ involving 100 adults
who grow marijuana for their own use. The club, given the initials SCCD, is
asking for official exemption from drugs laws so the growers cannot be
punished.
Justice
minister Ivo Opstelten has already said he will not approve the plan. However,
Everhardt says the SCCD is approaching the health not the justice ministry.
‘This is
because the club has been set up to combat the negative effects of cannabis use
on health,’ the council official said. ‘The opium law has provisions to make
exemptions on health grounds. The council expects a positive answer from the
ministry.’
Utrecht
came up with the idea of a cannabis club last year. Rotterdam is also working
on similar plans while Eindhoven, Tilburg and Leeuwarden are looking at ways to
stimulate legal marijuana production, nu.nl said.
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