Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

1. It’s not legal and indeed sales is tolerated under given conditions only on which their licence depends. One of those conditions is you have to be 18 to both enter and purchase from a coffeeshop (and yes you have to show an original ID such as a passport to prove it

2. Coffeeshops can sell up to 5 grams, per person per day (another of the licence conditions). Carrying 5 grams around will not get you any trouble. Up to 30 grams is a minor offence and of course over 30 grams you will have a hard time convincing anyone that it is for your own use and you are not dealing

3. You can grow up to 5 plants for personal use and will not be punished (although the legality again is a debatable issue). Tough measures are taken if found cultivating more than this

4. Consumption of pot is not illegal, however it is frowned on and as a matter of respect you don’t walk around with a joint hanging out of your mouth. There is also a tobacco ban in the Netherlands in public places so you cannot smoke in offices, railway stations, trams etc etc and this was also extended (to a degree) to bars, cafe’s etc for tobacco. If you are smoking around other people you will get told to put it out, but if you smoke in quiet area of a park away from especially older people, kids, families etc then you won’t get troubled

One other thing you should be aware of is the current government places to limit coffeeshops to Dutch residents only in the future (date not known yet) and therefore tourists will not be permitted to purchase. This was one of the plans of the coalition government, so if drugs are the sole reason for coming to Amsterdam, then you should keep in touch with the news as it will be a wasted trip otherwise

You can read the facts (as there is a lot of fiction on the net and in people’s heads) about laws here in this document produced by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs http://www.minbuza.nl/dsresource?objectid=buzabeheer:58788&type=pdf

GardenersCardiff answers:

I’ve had some mondegreens…some stupider than others. For the longest time I thought the line “people think I’m insane because I am frowning all the time” from Paranoid was “people think I’m insane because I am browning overtime”. And I used to think that the line “gunpowder gelatine” in Killer Queen was “got that agility”.

GardenersCardiff answers:

Fresh, unprocessed marijuana is safe to eat, and you will not get high from it. As for nutritional content, all I can find is with hemp seed oil, which is a nice source of Omega -3.

As for the taste, well, one might acquire for the flavor! I find it to be either too dry or too sticky to consider eating. Give it a shot and tell us about it, eh?