The Koos Zwart Award 2014 goes to Doede de Jong Organic cannabis farmer Doede de Jong, sentenced to a confiscation order of half a million euros for cannabis cultivation, received the Koos Zwart Award during the 6th Cannabis Liberation Day in the Netherlands, in June 2014. This prize is awarded Read more
2014 – ’16th Higlife Cup’ –>> Held at Cannabis Liberation Day in AmsterdamOn Sunday June 15th, the VOC (Union for the Abolition of Cannabis Prohibition) presents the sixth edition of Cannabis Liberation Day. The venue this year was Amsterdam’s lovely Flevopark and, the entrance was free! The main goal was to Read more
Cannabis Culture Award Winners are: FRITS BOLKESTEIN AND SPUITEN EN SLIKKEN On Tuesday April 23rd 2013 in Amsterdam, Frits Bolkestein received a Cannabis Culture Award from former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dries van Agt, the founder of the Dutch tolerance policy. Spuiten en Slikken was awarded by Frederik Polak. Read more
Koos Zwart (Amsterdam 1947–2014) was a Dutch cannabis activist. He advocated for the Dutch tolerance policy, which would be shaped in part by his mother, who was Minister of Health. In the 1970s and 1980s, Zwart would read the ‘market reports’ every Saturday on national radio in a show called Read more
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