High Times Cannabis Cup Raided in Amsterdam

Amsterdam police are in the process of raiding the High Times Cannabis Cup for the first time in its 24-year history.
Cannabis Culture received several messages from Cup-goers
this morning, warning that police have swarmed the location and are
searching people before letting them leave and confiscating marijuana.

A video sent to CC
by an attendee of The Cup show a police officer looking at a table
while an announcement over the loud speaker talks about the police
entering the building and says in English: "You need to leave the
building through the exits. When leaving the property, you will be
subjected to a search by police [inaudible] of the opium act."


Early reports of the raid are already hitting Twitter and the rest of the Internet.

Former CC Editor Dana Larsen (who wrote an article about the Cup for the Vancouver Sun this year) is giving updates as it happens on his Twitter account.

"Huge crowd of #cannabiscup attendees waiting to get searched on
their way out of the cup." he wrote. "Police officer told me they
investigated yesterday, saw some booths giving out weed & breaking
other rules. So now the event is shut down."

Another of his posts says, "Everyone will have their buds confiscated
but no-one will be charged or fined. This is the first time this has
happened in 24 years."

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This is one of the saddest news post yet

Whats the opium act? Lol maybe they were thinking people were bringing opiates in there or somethin..weird

WTF, how is this even legal?

41OMaXiMuS wrote:WTF, how is this even legal?

People were probably doing other shit...Idk the laws there but they mentioned some opium act thing...but idk that is weird.