The Netherlands will be allowed to maintain its "coffee" shops - where cannabis is openly sold and smoked - after managing to exempt them from an EU agreement aimed at combating illicit drugs trafficking.
The 15 EU justice ministers agreed today on harmonising national laws to make the bloc more efficient in the fight against drug trafficking.
But they left it up to individual member states to decide whether to exempt individuals from criminal liability when attempting to offer, ...
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