A Dutch prisoner accused of growing cannabis was accidentally given a hashish-laced cake being stored as evidence for another case. And people think American prisons are too cushy.
No word yet on whether the cake was left in the wooden shoes he placed outside his cell.
The hash cake had earlier been seized by police in an unrelated investigation and stored in a refrigerator - close to lunch packets served to suspects being held in cells at the police station in Goes, 110 miles south of Amsterdam.
"Clearly it looked a lot like the other lunch packets," Don said of the hash cake, which was served with a cup of coffee on Sunday.
But wait, imprisoned for growing cannabis in the Netherlands you say? Isn't pot legal there? How can this be?
It's not because he is the Kwisatz Haderach. The Netherlands is famous for its gedoogbeleid, or tolerance policy, with respect to so-called soft drugs (marijuana, hashish, mushrooms). It's even famous enough to get its own
Wikipedia page.
This policy sets out national guidelines explicating under what circumstances a prosecutor should pursue a criminal case. The idea is that this promotes uniformity of enforcement. Although these are guidelines, the courts have found that they constitute de facto decriminalization and ruled against government prosecutions which violate the guidelines.
The policy tolerates use and small sales, but prosecutes production and wholesale distribution. Thus the plight - and good fortune - of our lucky evidence eater.
