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Outside the Provincial Court of British Columbia (BC) in downtown Vancouver, a city regularly hailed as one of the best places to live in the world, there is a farmers market dedicated to marijuana — or "craft cannabis" as traders like to call it. Glass jars filled with the drug are lined up...

With 3,000 customers a day, a restaurant, ample parking and turnover of €26m (£23m) a year, Checkpoint café, the largest cannabis-selling coffee shop in the Netherlands, was a fabulous commercial success. That was until it was closed down in 2009 for testing to the limits what the Dutch...