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Cannabis Culture Awards 2012 | Amsterdam

Cannabis Culture Award winner 2012 Thorvald Stoltenberg: 'Hope is almost as important as life itself' During a festive and moving ceremony, the Cannabis Culture Awards 2012 were awarded in Amsterdam. Two former statesmen, Mr. Thorvald Stoltenberg, former minister of Defense of Norway and Mr. Dries van Agt, former Prime minister of the Netherlands, expressed their hope for a future without cannabis prohibition. 'Hope is almost as important as life itself', said Stoltenberg. Mr. Stoltenberg accepted the Cannabis Culture Award on behalf of the Global Commission on Drug Policy. Former CCA winner Dries van Agt handed him the award and complimented Mr. Stoltenberg on his groundbreaking work in this commission as well as in Norway. Mr. Van Agt played a key role in establishing the world famous Dutch tolerance policy on cannabis. He was very outspoken in his criticism of recent policy changes in the Netherlands. 'This policy change to more repression, or even "zero tolerance", is devastating nonsense' van Agt said. Lester Grinspoon, associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, was unable to travel to Amsterdam to receive his award. Thankfully, the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum was able to arrange a video conference between the Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam and the library of the Harvard Medical School where Lester Grinspoon first started his research. The third Cannabis Culture Award Winner, Psychiatrist Fredrick Polak, commented on the most recent political developments: "The resignation of the Dutch government will hopefully lead to termination of the new rules for coffeeshops and the so-called 'weedpass'."