Bringing a medicine containing Cannabis Sativa from India to the Netherlands

9/5/2016 4:36:58 PM

Import is not permitted:

Travelling to the Netherlands with prescribed medication

If you are traveling to the Netherlands and you are bringing medication with you, there should be no problem at customs if it is clear that the medicine is for personal use. It is recommended to bring a letter from your physician stating the amount of medicine you use per day. It is prohibited to bring narcotics into the country. In case of emergency, if you are in the Netherlands and need specific medication from the US that is not available in the Netherlands, you should contact a pharmacist in the Netherlands who will be able, with your doctor’s prescription from the US, to obtain a comparable medicine. Please note that sending unregistered medication to the Netherlands by mail is prohibited. (If the medicine is produced abroad it is considered unregistered in the Netherlands). Please contact us via e-mail if you have any questions.

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If declared I would expect confiscation, a warning and no further action.

If not declared and discovered nevertheless I would expect more serious consequences.

9/5/2016 10:33:17 PM

Actually, the Netherlands is not necessarily any different than France or Germany in this respect and this is very likely not to be allowed. The country is notorious for its very visible “tolerance” policy towards recreative use but it is still forbidden to grow and/or import cannabis and your friend could easily run into problems for trying to cross the border with a cannabis product.

Briefly, the way the policy regarding recreational use of cannabis works is that so-called “coffee shops” are allowed to sell cannabis (under a number of conditions) without fearing enforcement but the law itself hasn’t been changed and the Netherlands is still a party to the relevant international treaties. Most notably, there is no legal way to procure cannabis in the first place. Growing is forbidden, importing is forbidden, large transactions are forbidden and all these rules are actively enforced, all the way to police razzia and jail terms for people making money in the production of cannabis. This is usually called achterdeurbeleid or “back-door policy” because everybody knows that if businesses can sell cannabis it must come from somewhere but it can’t come through the front-door.

For small quantities (plants at home, smoking cannabis in public), the main consequence would be seizure, perhaps a fine. I don’t know exactly about medicinal products found at the airport but I would guess it’s the same and your friend would not risk jail (but if he is a third-country citizen, this might very well have consequences for his visa). I still wouldn’t try it.

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