Staff of Philips Netherlands are daily harassed and threatened by a buyer of the greenhouse lamps, used for cannabis cultivation. Philips stopped supplying these lamps and the buyer is not amused. The harassment and threats have been going on for months now and aren't only addressed to the company buildings. Some employees are even being harassed at home.
The electronics group announced this news in a broadcast of the Dutch news program, Brandpunt. This broadcast revealed that Philips earned a lot of money by supplying lamps for cannabis cultivation. Two years ago, the company says, they stopped the supply of lamps when there were suspicions that the lamps would not be used for greenhouse horticulture, but for cannabis cultivation.
Legally it isn't forbidden to supply to the weed industry. Currently a legislation to criminalize this is in the making.
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