Mellow Yellow coffeeshop legislation in Amsterdam requiring 28 coffeeshops located within 250 meters of schools to close. The owner protested that the school was a hairstyling academy with students generally over the age of 18, but the Amsterdam government still required its closure, in part to protect the remaining coffeeshops in Amsterdam from the requirements used in other parts of the Netherlands which bar foreigners from cannabis coffeeshops. The owner Johnny Petram stated his hope that he would be able to reopen Mellow Yellow at a new location. Mellow Yellow coffeeshop Mellow Yellow was the oldest cannabis coffee shop in Amsterdam, prior to
Cannabis in Sweden of cannabis. Among their justifications are the idea that the ban will lead to greater harm than the drug itself, that prohibition favors organized crime, and possession and controlled sale of alcohol is already legal. Cannabis in Sweden Cannabis in Sweden is illegal for recreational and medical purposes; only very limited medical usage of cannabis-based drugs is allowed for specific conditions. In Sweden, cannabis has no officially recognized medical usage and medical use is not seen as an extenuating circumstance. Rather the opposite, in a case that drew some attention in the national press involving a multiple sclerosis patient, the