🇳🇱 Cannabis status in Netherlands
Cannabis remains illegal but personal-use possession + sale in licensed coffeeshops is tolerated under the gedoogbeleid policy. Medical cannabis available via Office of Medicinal Cannabis. Cross-border carriage prosecutable.
Legal status (4 axes)
- Recreational
- tolerated
- Medical
- legal
- CBD / hemp
- legal
- THC limit
- 5 g per transaction in coffeeshops
Cross-border carriage
Cross-border carriage of cannabis is illegal under the UN Single Convention 1961 in every signatory country regardless of domestic legal status. Even where domestic possession is legal, taking cannabis across the border is a separate prosecutable offence.
Last verified 2026-04-28.