Dutch ‘coffeeshops’ annual sales of hashish and cannabis are about 1 billion Euro

The research office Intraval which is specialized in investigating criminality and addiction has found that the average Dutch ‘coffeeshop’ has annual sales of cannabis and hashish of about 1,7 million Euro. This would mean that the combined annual sales of the about 600 Dutch “coffeeshops” are in the order of magnitude of 1 billion Euro. http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4492/Nederland/article/detail/4217318/2016/01/02/Nederlandse-coffeeshops-zetten-een-miljard-euro-om.dhtml