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I've been doing some time traveling and I found several predecessors of dutch coffeeshops, and the queen of coffeeshops :)
http://www.anecdote-films.com/milasjourney/milajansen.html
If anyone deserves the title of the fathers of the dutch cannabis scene and what makes Amsterdam Amsterdam for cannabis uses it is Robert Jasper Grootveld, left from Mila in pic above, and Kees Hoekert.
From wiki
"The Provos sought to provoke the police in non-violent ways, aiming to shatter the self-righteousness of the authorities. Led by Grootveld, the Provos began a disinformation campaign to demonstrate the establishment's complete ignorance on the subject of cannabis. The Provos set out to get busted for "consuming" tea, hay, or herbs instead of marijuana. The Provos would often call the police on themselves.
"One day a whole group of us went by bus to Belgium," says Grootveld. "Of course I had informed my friend Houweling [police officer] that some elements might take some pot along. At the border, the cops and customs were waiting for us. Followed by the press, we were taken away for a thorough search. The poor cops...all they could find was dogfood and some legal herbs. 'Marijuana is dogfood,' joked the papers the next day. After that, the cops decided to refrain from hassling us in the future, afraid of more blunders."
Grootveld and the artist Fred Wessels also opened the "Afrikaanse Druk Stoor," where they sold both real and fake marijuana."
He started the Lowlands Weed Company with Kees Hoekert in the early 60s already.
"Every weekend in 1962, I paid a visit to a police officer named Houweling," explains Grootveld. "During these visits, I often dressed like an American Indian. We always had very friendly chats about marijuana. Houweling didn't know anything about it, so I could tell him anything I wanted."
http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/HT_provos_0190.html/
(In dutch... but shows the very first openly tolerated places where cannabis plants were grown in Amsterdam).
"Grow your own cannabis, leave the rest...[heroine]"
Some more views of their "grow space" in first minute or so here:
The others who started the first coffeeshops as we've known them since, were house-dealers in youth center and festivals. Specifically, Wernard Bruining (founder Mellow Yellow 1972) and Maarten Brusselers (founder Rusland 1975, first shop with a license) were house dealers at the Melkweg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkweg
and the founder of the Bull Dog was a dealer at some woodstock-inspired festival.
Back in the early 90s we moved to a small town up north where people swore they got high from smoking thea or bananas... Never knew the origin of that myth till today, something Wernard heard and called his shop Mellow Yellow...
Wernard, Kees Hoekert and a few others formed the green team in the late 70s and invited Old Ed in 79 and Sam and Ed Rosenthal mid 80s. http://olded.nl/Old Ed geschiedenis.html
So much change caused by a relatively small amount of people.
"At the core of Grootveld's philosophy was the belief that the masses had been brainwashed into becoming a herd of addicted consumers."
We could use a few more like him these days...
Oh, and Kees Hoekert on FB with more info and pics too https://nl-nl.facebook.com/keeshoekert/info/?entry_point=page_nav_about_item&tab=page_info
http://www.anecdote-films.com/milasjourney/milajansen.html
If anyone deserves the title of the fathers of the dutch cannabis scene and what makes Amsterdam Amsterdam for cannabis uses it is Robert Jasper Grootveld, left from Mila in pic above, and Kees Hoekert.
From wiki
"The Provos sought to provoke the police in non-violent ways, aiming to shatter the self-righteousness of the authorities. Led by Grootveld, the Provos began a disinformation campaign to demonstrate the establishment's complete ignorance on the subject of cannabis. The Provos set out to get busted for "consuming" tea, hay, or herbs instead of marijuana. The Provos would often call the police on themselves.
"One day a whole group of us went by bus to Belgium," says Grootveld. "Of course I had informed my friend Houweling [police officer] that some elements might take some pot along. At the border, the cops and customs were waiting for us. Followed by the press, we were taken away for a thorough search. The poor cops...all they could find was dogfood and some legal herbs. 'Marijuana is dogfood,' joked the papers the next day. After that, the cops decided to refrain from hassling us in the future, afraid of more blunders."
Grootveld and the artist Fred Wessels also opened the "Afrikaanse Druk Stoor," where they sold both real and fake marijuana."
He started the Lowlands Weed Company with Kees Hoekert in the early 60s already.
"Every weekend in 1962, I paid a visit to a police officer named Houweling," explains Grootveld. "During these visits, I often dressed like an American Indian. We always had very friendly chats about marijuana. Houweling didn't know anything about it, so I could tell him anything I wanted."
http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/HT_provos_0190.html/
"Grow your own cannabis, leave the rest...[heroine]"
Some more views of their "grow space" in first minute or so here:
The others who started the first coffeeshops as we've known them since, were house-dealers in youth center and festivals. Specifically, Wernard Bruining (founder Mellow Yellow 1972) and Maarten Brusselers (founder Rusland 1975, first shop with a license) were house dealers at the Melkweg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkweg
and the founder of the Bull Dog was a dealer at some woodstock-inspired festival.
Back in the early 90s we moved to a small town up north where people swore they got high from smoking thea or bananas... Never knew the origin of that myth till today, something Wernard heard and called his shop Mellow Yellow...
Wernard, Kees Hoekert and a few others formed the green team in the late 70s and invited Old Ed in 79 and Sam and Ed Rosenthal mid 80s. http://olded.nl/Old Ed geschiedenis.html
So much change caused by a relatively small amount of people.
"At the core of Grootveld's philosophy was the belief that the masses had been brainwashed into becoming a herd of addicted consumers."
We could use a few more like him these days...
Oh, and Kees Hoekert on FB with more info and pics too https://nl-nl.facebook.com/keeshoekert/info/?entry_point=page_nav_about_item&tab=page_info
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