In The Netherlands, it's forbidden to grow cannabis plants. This means that coffee shops, while practicing a tolerated business - selling less than 5 gr. of weed per transaction - supply weed from illegal actors. This investigation seeks to investigate the money flow that goes from coffee shops to the black market. Who is owning the coffee shops? Who are the suppliers? Is the weed cultivated in The Netherlands or imported from abroad? Who are the intermediaries in the supply chain?

Criminal organisations reinvest money from drug trafficking in other illegal activities that damage Dutch and European society as a whole.

To make people understand what's behind an apparently "legal" and "fun" activity such as smoking weed in country where it's permitted

The Netherlands