Another advantage: Maikel can now have a weekly stock at home. That was first a maximum of 500 grams. “But we usually sell more in a day. So we had to be topped up several times a day through the back door.”
He looks around. “We normally had to bring this in with boys with scooters and backpacks. Now we can store it neatly. In a heavily protected environment, in a thick safe. There is quite a few money here, you want to secure that well.”
Cutting coffee shops from crime
Mayor Jan Hamming also comes to shake a hand. “We have worked with the coffee shops for a long time to ensure that a new situation is created, where you can legally enter products and the illegality is cut off from the coffee shops.”
He continues: “Of course it is an experiment and part of the solution. We have to be realistic: we are not there yet with the fight against the undermining drug crime. But this is a stone in the wall that we are building to make our city safer.”