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White Widow is a balanced hybrid strain of Cannabis indica and Cannabis sativa [1] [2] [3] that was created and developed by Shantibaba whilst he worked at the Greenhouse Seed Company. [4] [5] White Widow has been described as "among the most popular [strains] in the world" by Popular Science magazine. The strain won the Cannabis Cup in 1995 ...
Prohibition. Cannabis was first criminalised in the Netherlands in 1953, following earlier laws against its import and export in 1928. [ 1] Cannabis was banned much earlier in the Dutch colony of Suriname, in the early part of the 20th century, [ 2] and in Dutch Indonesia in 1927. [ 3]
Dutch cheeses. Beemster – a hard cow's milk cheese, traditionally from cows grazed on sea-clay soil in polders. Boerenkaas – "farmhouse cheese", prepared using raw unpasteurised milk. Edam – a red-waxed semi-hard cows' milk cheese named after the town of Edam. Graskaas – "grass cheese", a seasonal cows' milk cheese made from the first ...
A Dutch judge has ruled that tourists can legally be banned from entering cannabis cafés, as part of new restrictions which come into force in 2012. [ 52 ] A study conducted by the European Monitoring Centre of Drugs and Drug Addiction report that 25.3% of Irish people smoked cannabis at some stage in their life, and 25.7% of Dutch people have ...
Cannabis cultivation dates back at least 3000 years in Taiwan. [ 3] The history of cannabis and its usage by humans dates back to at least the third millennium BC in written history, and possibly as far back as the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8800–6500 BCE) based on archaeological evidence. For millennia, the plant has been valued for its use ...
Pot, a common slang name for cannabis, on a sign at a 2012 cannabis rights demonstration in New York City. More than 1,200 slang names have been identified for the dried leaves and flowers harvested from the cannabis plant for drug use. [1] This list is not exhaustive; it includes well-attested expressions.
Kaaskop (a word play: "kaas" means "cheese", and "kop" means both "cup" and "head"; literally a kaaskop is the bowl in which round Dutch cheeses are made, but figuratively it refers to the round blond straight-haired heads of the Dutch) a word for ethnically Dutch people. Is also used to refer to people originating from the city of Alkmaar, The ...
There are currently five cheese markets operating in the Netherlands – Woerden, Alkmaar, Gouda, Edam, and Hoorn. Each of these was once a merchant cheese market in operation during the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century. Today, the markets still function as farmers' markets for cheeses in addition to hosting dramatic re-enactments of sales ...