TREKT UW PLANT HAALT EERSTE OOGST VAN HET JAAR BINNEN
2 april 2011
ANTWERPEN -
Today the First Cannabis Social Club of Belgium, Trekt Uw Plant in Antwerp, brought
in its first harvest of 2011. In a meeting in Antwerp 30 members received their first
plant of the year containing each 25 grammes of cannabis. Since February 2010 the
association grows cannabis for the personal use of its members, on the basis of the
principle 1 plant per member. We base ourselves on a ministerial guideline  that was
signed in January 2005 by the Minister of Justice and all 5 Chief Prosecutors of
Belgium. According to this guideline, the possession of max. 3 grammes of cannabis
and 1 cannabis plant by adults will no longer be prosecuted.
Growing cannabis for personal use is a sensible and healthy alterntive to the illegal
market and the tourism from Belgians to Dutch coffeeshops. Trekt Uw Plant uses only
ecological cultivation methods, without any risk of contamination or adulteration of
the product, like it can be the case on the black market. Contrary to the illegal
market, a Cannabis Social Club is not accessible to minors. And because members of
Trekt Uw Plant do not need to drive to the Netherlands anymore, to buy cannabis in
coffeeshops there, a contribution is made to the reduction of public nuisance and
pollution.
The ministerial guideline that de facto legalises cultivation for personal use in Belgium
was established after 8 years of political discussions and debate in society. Also Trekt
Uw Plant had to go to court two times because some prosecutors still did not find the
guideline clear enough and persecuted the association, first for "cannabis possession"
and after for "incitement to drug use". Both times the association was acquitted, on
26 june 2008 and 25 february 2010.
Since then Trekt Uw Plant organises cannabis cultivation for the personal use of its
members, through a closed circuit. We call on all people who want to follow our
example to do this in a respectful, serious and responsible way. Establishing an
association is a way to start in a good way. Our statutes are accessible on our website
, and we are always willing to give advise.
Furthermore Trekt Uw Plant wants to start a dialogue with local authorities in order to
explain the activities of the association and avoid misunderstandings. We are also
interested in the possibility to control our cannabis by public health authorities, but
due to the lacking clarity on the legal status it is still impossible to establish a
definitive regulation around this.
Trekt Uw Plant
Trekt Uw Plant is a Cannabis Social Club, founded in 2006, with the aim of showing in
all openness and in a simple but convincing way that it is very well possible to
regulate the cultivation of cannabis for adults in Belgium.
Details contactpersons:
Martin Veltjen - 
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  – Tel. +32 493 - 195477
Joep Oomen – 
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  – Tel +32 495 – 122644
Kris Verdonck - 
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  – Tel. +32 486 - 357595
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