Reviewed Sep 2026Tolerated

Cannabis in North Brabant

Coffeeshops in North Brabant: Breda and Tilburg pioneered the legal-supply trial in Dec 2023; Breda admits residents only; Den Bosch is outside.

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Cities: 3
Minimum age: 18+

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The rules

Key rules in the Netherlands

Plain-language summary. The regulator is Gemeente Breda / municipalities; experiment run by the national government.

Possession
Up to 5 g is not prosecuted (tolerated, not legal).
Home grow
Up to 5 plants per person is not prosecuted.
Purchase limit
Coffeeshops may sell at most 5 g per person per transaction.
Minimum age
18; no minors on the premises.
Residents criterion
National rule since 1 January 2013, enforced locally; strict in Maastricht and mandatory in experiment municipalities on the Belgian or German border.
Public use
No national ban, but municipalities can prohibit it — e.g. Amsterdam's Wallen since 25 May 2023 (€100 fine after a warning).
Supply
Outside the trial, cultivation and supply to coffeeshops remain illegal; in 10 trial municipalities shops sell only regulated cannabis since 7 April 2025.
Advertising
Coffeeshops may not advertise drugs.

Summary, not legal advice — rules change; check local law. Last reviewed Sep 2026.

How it works

How cannabis is sold in North Brabant

North Brabant is where the Dutch legal-supply trial began. On 15 December 2023 Breda and Tilburg started the experiment's start-up phase, the first places where coffeeshops sold cannabis grown by government-designated growers. Since the experiment phase began on 7 April 2025, all coffeeshops in both cities must sell only regulated cannabis, in sealed, neutral packaging with a QR-code information leaflet and full track-and-trace registration. The phase is set to last four years.

The two cities differ on who may buy. The experiment rules require participating municipalities on the Belgian or German border to admit only residents of the Netherlands, and Breda is among them; recent reviews of Breda shops such as De Baron (on Boschstraat since 1988) describe door staff asking for proof of address. Tilburg was not classed as a border municipality. There, The Grass Company runs two shops with strict house rules: valid ID for everyone, no tobacco and no alcohol on the premises.

Elsewhere in the province, including 's-Hertogenbosch, coffeeshops remain under the ordinary tolerance policy and are supplied outside the trial. Everywhere the national limits apply: 18+, and no more than 5 grams per purchase.

By location

Cities in North Brabant