IWantToFuckSpez , 5 months ago

That’s not entirely true. The Dutch toleration policy started in the 70’s so before the Schengen Agreement. The reason to implement a mandate instead of codifying it into law and why it is a half assed mandate was to placate the right wing Christian parties.

Yes nowadays the EU plays a role into why the Dutch haven’t updated their laws, but it’s mostly internal pressure from the right for why they haven’t done anything substantial in the last three decades. In those decades the center right libs were always part of the government and they have been blocking any proposal to legalize weed. Only now they have opened up to the idea of government produced weed, since their tough on crime policies and war on drugs haven’t amounted to anything.