Smoking stickies in Appelscha to improve the world.
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April 2011 Appelscha, The Netherlands, Europe. Marijuana Grower Doede de Jong sees itself as a positive factor. Hemp pioneer and bio weed farmer Doede de Jong is tormented by the police. ,, All my children have grown up as responsible adults, though.
The biological grower Doede de Jong contributes with his forbidden fruit to a better world . " Hemp makes you positive, he nuanced controversial. In his hometown Appelscha everyone knows what he's doing . " I did it for forty years and everyone finds it normal. I see myself as a positive factor. Police harassed the 61 year old farmer by time by time to empty his greenhouses. Monday will be shown in a tv documentary how the Frisian fight against unsustainable weed laws. Coffee shops are not punished for selling cannabis ( up to 500 grams is allowed as stock ) but may not buy it. So the back door leads to the underworld. " I 'm so tired " he sighs against MSM. ,, What's it all about? Alcohol is less innocent ". Doede is virtually the only plant grower ( without bulbs ) without has no difficulty to open its door to journalists. He has guts ; ,, The officer from justice received a ten folds page counting document, with in detailed information about the hemp in my greenhouse. I 'm very open about it.
Justice does not see him as criminal, they have let know the passionate farmer.
Rather as someone who does not agree with the law. De Jong has appealed to the Supreme Court prior to his sentencing to community service. ,, I wants to force a breakthrough ". says the hemp pioneer. ,, My wife and son smoke stickies also, and they work better on it. He just laughs. ,, Actually she is the breadwinner and works in psychiatry . All my kids are come on well, though : one is a psychologist, another biologist and my son has HBO V ". Super Skunk is his favorite kind. ,, I smoke it pure, without tobacco . In the morning half a joint and at noon the rest. When his nursery is prohibited again , everyone has a problem . ,, Customers are designated criminal gang . And I 'm sure the police officers also like to get in the coffee shops ".