Koos Zwart Award 2023 – 29 November, Amsterdam Hans van Duijn, former chairman and honorary member of the Dutch Police Union, was the recipient of the 2023 Koos Zwart Award, on November 29 in Amsterdam. The Koos Zwart Award was inaugurated to recognize activists who have made an outstanding contribution to the Read more…
Since August de Loor became the first community worker in the Netherlands in 1970, he has been involved in everything related to drugs and drug policy in Amsterdam and far beyond. For years he ran the Drugs Advice Bureau and carried out pioneering work in the field of harm reduction. Read more…
Koos Zwart Award 2021. The Koos Zwart Award this year goes to Derrick Bergman, chairman of the VOC foundation, the umbrella organization of all organizations and individuals in the Netherlands who are opposed to the prohibition of cannabis. The Platform Cannabis Companies Netherlands (PCN) awards the prize every year to Read more…
Koos Zwart Award 2019 – Postponed The 2019 Koos Zwart Award Ceremony was postponed.
Koos Zwart Award 2018 The Dutch Drug Policy Foundation (Stichting Drugsbeleid) is the receipiant of the 2018 Koos Zwart Award. Spokesman Raimond Dufour accepted the Koos Zwart Award on behalf of the foundation stating, “It is encouraging to receive recognition for the many years of dedication that the Stichting Drugbeleid Read more…
The Koos Zwart Award 2017 goes to Dries van Agt Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt smoked his very fist joint at the age of 86 on Wednesday. Despite introducing the cannabis tolerance policy as Minister of Justice in 1976, Van Agt never actually tried weed himself, the association Read more…
The Koos Zwart Award 2016 goes to Rick Simpson The Koos Zwart Award 2016 goes to Rick Simpson, one of the world’s largest pioneers in the field of medicinal cannabis oil. The PCN awards the prize every year to someone who has made an exceptional effort to legalize and normalize Read more…
The Koos Zwart Award 2015 goes to Ben Dronkers On Sunday the 14th of June 2015 the 7th Cannabis Liberation Day took place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During this festival the founder of Sensi Seeds, Ben Dronkers, was honoured with the Koos Zwart Award; an annual recognition for activists who Read more…
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…
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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