Screenshot of WhatsApp status notifying customers that from 23:00 on Monday, March 16 th,Ĭannabis is available at 17.50 euros a gram For those unlucky ones who waited dangerously close to one another in line only to be turned away due to empty shelves, this message would have come as a Godsend. Which was quite unusual, as cannabis is one drug that never shows up on their extensive drug menus. 06-dealers (those who use WhatsApp to communicate) were on it! That evening, alerts went out to whomever had their contact saved in their phone that cannabis could be purchased for 17.50 euros a gram the following day. Already, dealers had the ability to provide cannabis to those in need. And two, for mayors of major cities, these photos served as evidence that cutting off the legal supply would allow the underground drug market to flourishĪnd they were right. ![]() Hordes of them, thisclose to each other, I can’t even. These photos made something visible to the public: one, stoners did not get the physical distancing memo. People were rushing to coffeeshops, out of concern that they needed to stock up on cannabis because the next time they were being told that they could legally buy again would be April 6 th-at the earliest. Late Sunday afternoon, on March 15 th, when news broke that coffee shops, along with restaurants, cafes, and sex clubs, would be closing at 18:00 for at least three weeks, baffling queues started appearing outside coffeeshops throughout the country. But clearly, many other people were panic buying another essential item: cannabis. Panic buyers (and, to be subtle, the greedy and the daft) were the target of many news articles and TV programmes. In particular, toilet paper gained a lot of attention as COVID-19 and semi-lockdown measures started to grip the Netherlands. It is considered a type of herd behaviour where people hoard large quantities of certain products in the fear of its unavailability in the coming future. ![]() Panic buying is a term that surfaces alongside large-scale catastrophes. ![]() Photo taken of a line up outside The Stud Store coffee shop in Amsterdam Oost, the late afternoon of 15 March 20202
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