Dutch police discover 7,000 kg marijuana stash
Aug 24 2010
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Amsterdam police have found 7,000 kg of marijuana and hashish in a warehouse near Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, with an estimated street value of 40 million euros (32.8 million pounds).
Police said Tuesday it found the cache on August 17 after arresting a 35-year-old man on suspicion of selling narcotics. They also held his girlfriend and the person who rented the storage space in a warehouse.
The Netherlands has about 700 "coffee shops" where the sale of marijuana is tolerated, each allowed to have 500 grams in stock -- meaning the stash could supply them all 20 times over.
Photos on the police website show a shipping container filled with cardboard boxes, each box stuffed with tightly wrapped bricks of pot and hash.
Small quantities of soft drugs like marijuana are legal to possess under Dutch law, but trafficking in massive quantities is still a serious crime.
Dutch police have made a number of drug seizures this year as smugglers get increasingly creative in trying to get drugs through the country's cargo transit points - Schiphol and the port in Rotterdam.
Large busts this year included drugs hidden in shipments of whisky from Jamaica, pineapples from Panama and roses from Colombia.
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Dutch police discover 7,000 kg marijuana stash
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startled-giraffe
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I reckon so - 'a shipping container filled with cardboard boxes, each box stuffed with tightly wrapped bricks of pot and hash'treetop wrote:so where would a lump of doobie like that be destined? Was it for the export market?
We've probably managed to escape some shit gritweed in the uk by the looks of things!
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7 million grams! or 14 million spliffs!
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7 million grams. Say it retails at 10E/g, and 50% of that is sales tax.
Which means the Dutch Police just cost the Dutch taxpayer
35 million Euros in lost tax revenue.
About 2 Euros for every man, woman and child.
Smart.
The pro-blow lobby ought to be shouting this from the rooftops.
Arch
Which means the Dutch Police just cost the Dutch taxpayer
35 million Euros in lost tax revenue.
About 2 Euros for every man, woman and child.
Smart.
The pro-blow lobby ought to be shouting this from the rooftops.
Arch
Only the paranoid survive (who said that?) 
archambaut wrote:7 million grams. Say it retails at 10E/g, and 50% of that is sales tax.
Which means the Dutch Police just cost the Dutch taxpayer
35 million Euros in lost tax revenue.
About 2 Euros for every man, woman and child.
Smart.
The pro-blow lobby ought to be shouting this from the rooftops.
Arch
very true if you look at it from that point of view, saying that tho,who says that wasnt going to be shipped out to another country?
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archambaut
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There's no evidence either way.
However, the authorities, having seized it might be
able to auction it to local coffeeshops/wholesalers
and ensure that the revenue stays within the Netherlands,
instead of just incinerating it.
I know their laws won't allow it, and it's far too sensible
a solution to ever happen, but you know...
Something of a flaw in their tolerance policy, I feel.
Arch
However, the authorities, having seized it might be
able to auction it to local coffeeshops/wholesalers
and ensure that the revenue stays within the Netherlands,
instead of just incinerating it.
I know their laws won't allow it, and it's far too sensible
a solution to ever happen, but you know...
Something of a flaw in their tolerance policy, I feel.
Arch
Only the paranoid survive (who said that?)
