C.E.P.T.A.
The CAMPAIGN for EFFECTIVE PREVENTION and TREATMENT of ADDICTION.
9. CANNABIS, WEED, GRASS, SKUNK, NEDERWEED, MARIJUANA, etc:
A smouldering rose by any other name would smell just as bad.
9a. THE DUTCH EXPERIMENT
In 1990 the Dutch Minister of
Justice regretfully announced that since de-criminalising Cannabis,
Theft, vandalism, use of hard drugs and even drug-linked gun deaths had all escalated.
The permitted amount of cannabis for personal use was, in consequence, reduced from 30 grams to 5 grams, and many ‘coffee shops’ have been closed.
But usage of Cannabis at all ages, and the drug Mafia pushing harder drugs, continue to expand.
(N.B. Although originally launched as a forward thinking policy on drugs, Dutch politicians, because they admit they are still trying to get it right, now regard their attempts to de-criminalise cannabis as more of an experiment from which to learn and with which to develop something more effective in all respects.)
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