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ARTICLE VIEW:
Huge legal cannabis farm told to cut smell or risk closure
By Billy Stockwell, Catherine Nicholls, CNN
Updated:
8:28 AM EDT, Thu September 11, 2025
Source: CNN
A massive legal farm in the Netherlands has been told to reduce the
odor coming from its facility or risk closure after more than 2,000
complaints from hundreds of residents, according to a regional Dutch
environmental agency.
If the farm fails to sufficiently limit the smell, CanAdelaar – the
company that operates the farm – could face fines of up to €3.5
million ($4.1 million) or risk being shut down, local authorities said
after a court ruling earlier this week.
The farm is located west of the Netherlands’ second largest city . It
opened in 2023 as part of a government scheme permitting several
companies to grow cannabis under strict conditions, said DCMR
Environmental Protection Agency, which monitors the business on behalf
of the municipality of Voorne aan Zee, where the farm is located.
Reports of “odor nuisance” were received immediately after the
farm’s opening, DCMR said in a statement first published in December
but amended Wednesday.
“By August 2025, DCMR had received approximately 2,000 reports from
nearly 300 different residents,” the agency said. Rotterdam’s
judiciary court said in a statement Wednesday that more than 2,000
complaints had been filed.
The company has previously promised to implement “odor mitigation
measures” to tackle the issue, according to DCMR.
According to DCMR, inspectors observed “odor nuisance” during
multiple inspections and concluded that the company was “not
always” complying with the appropriate regulations. As a result,
Voorne aan Zee municipality imposed customized regulations on the farm
to reduce odor, DCMR said.
On Wednesday, a preliminary relief judge ruled that the regulations
could remain in effect and gave the company one week to “take
measures or cease operations,” according to DCMR.
“The judge emphasized that it is undesirable for the odor nuisance to
continue. He noted that the odor nuisance has been very severe since
2023,” DCMR said.
“He also doubts whether the measures proposed by CanAdelaar itself
will bring sufficient improvement in the short term,” DCMR said of
the judge’s comments.
The company’s director is confident they will meet the requirements,
said Wednesday, without naming him.
“We’ve been installing air filters since the beginning of the
month,” he told NOS, “and more are on the way. I think we are on
the right track to further limiting the nuisance.”
CanAdelaar is the largest legal cannabis producer in the Netherlands
and operates a greenhouse complex the size of seven soccer pitches, NOS
reported.
CNN has contacted CanAdelaar for comment.
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