In 1996, the municipality of Terneuzen was the only town in Zeeland as tolerant in an end to the illegal sale.
Checkpoint made use of forced removals to significantly expand a mega coffeeshop where on average 2,900 customers per day (on peak days to 5000) take a number and then had to pull one of the five tills a bag hash or weed to be met.
The coffee shop had its own parking, café and restaurant, almost one hundred employees and an annual turnover of 26 million euros.
On 3 November 2009 the trial of fifteen employees of the coffee shop, where prison sentences to eighteen years and a confiscation order of 27 million was demanded.
The court did weigh the municipality of Terneuzen, the Public Prosecutor and the treasury not despite these interventions were aware of the scope of the case, which the owner always has been open.