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	Drug policy : The Netherlands [Illicit drugs and alcohol]
		Drug use in the Netherlands is seen as a normal social problem and illicit drug users as patients in need of treatment and support rather than criminals.
		Historically, the Netherlands was involved in the trade of opium and coca and it wasn't until 1919 that, mainly due to international pressure, the first efforts to restrict the trade were undertaken.
		Hard drug were seen to present a significant risk to the community, whilst the risk from soft drugs was significantly lower.
	www.aic.gov.au /research/drugs/international/netherlands.html (426 words)

	Drug policy of the Netherlands - Definition, explanation
		Driving under the influence of drugs is nevertheless prohibited, as is being under the influence in public (of either alcohol or other drugs), mainly from a public nuisance perspective.
		Although drug use, as opposed to trafficking, is seen primarily as a public health issue, responsibility for drug policy is shared by both the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sports, and the Ministry of Justice.
		The Netherlands is a party to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/d/dr/drug_policy_of_the_netherlands.php (1471 words)

	HotBot Web Search for Netherlands Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland (help·info), IPA: [ˈne:dərlɑnt]) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the...
		Dutch history contributed by Leiden was the Constitution of the Netherlands.
		The PvdA is one of the major parties of the Netherlands.
	www.hotbot.com /index.php?query=Netherlands%20Wikipedia%2C%20the%20free%20encyclopedia (294 words)

	Drug policy of the Netherlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The export of the synthetic drug ecstasy to the U.S. during 1999 reached unprecedented proportions.
		Although drug use, as opposed to trafficking, is seen primarily as a public health issue, responsibility for drug policy is shared by both the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sports, and the Ministry of Justice.
		The Netherlands is a party to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands (1928 words)

	Amsterdam Explained (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The drug policy of the Netherlands is based on two principles: Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal matter A distinction between hard drugs and soft drugs exists It is a pragmatic policy.
		In the Netherlands drugs policy is therefore differentiated according to the seriousness of the potential damage to health which may be caused by the use or abuse of the drug in question.
		Policy is aimed at ensuring better coordination of the activities of the various police forces along the southern and eastern borders of the Netherlands in this field and at having the prosecution of foreign drug offenders transferred to the authorities in their country of origin wherever possible.
	www.exploring.nu /Amsterdam-Explained.htm (17142 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Dazed and Confused: Smoke and Mirrors over Dutch Drug Policy - Joris Vos, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., et ...
		The drug policy of the Netherlands has evolved over the years with the consent of the Dutch people, who are, for the most part, satisfied with the results.
		Drug use among Dutch youth, Collins concludes, looks "remarkably similar to the youth drug scene elsewhere in Europe." He seems to think that this similarity damns Dutch drug policy, but it is really praise.
		That is hardly a tribute to the effectiveness of a drug policy that is now almost a quarter of a century old -- one of the aims of which was to curb hard-drug use.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19991101faresponse1027/joris-vos-joseph-a-califano-jr/dazed-and-confused-smoke-and-mirrors-over-dutch-drug-policy.html (2085 words)

	National Drug Policy: The Netherlands
		The Netherlands also has guidelines for sanctions that the Public Prosecutor is directed to seek, based on: the type of drug involved, the amount of the drug, and the specific offence.
		The Netherlands has a long history as a country of transit: Rotterdam is the largest seaport in the world, while the country has a highly developed transport sector.
		As for hard drugs, the report states that the number of addicts in the Netherlands is low compared with the rest of Europe and considerably lower than that in France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.
	www.parl.gc.ca /37/1/parlbus/commbus/senate/com-e/ille-e/library-e/dolin1-e.htm (4349 words)

	Drugs Policy in the Netherlands
		Active policies on care and prevention are being pursued to reduce the demand for drugs, while a war is being waged on organised crime in an attempt to curb supplies.
		Given the importance of an integrated approach, responsibility for drugs policy is borne by a number of ministries.
		The Netherlands occupies a leading position internationally in research and monitoring, as witness the 1995 report of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in Lisbon.
	www.ukcia.org /research/dutch.htm (2410 words)

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		In larger cities, policy on actions against illegal offenders of the Opium Act is usually preceded by tripartite consultation between the burgomaster, the head of the Public Prosecutions Department and the Iocal chief of police.
		Policy in the administration of criminal justice likewise maintains a clear cut distinction between drug users and traffickers, one of its aims being to avoid classifying the possession of drugs by users as serious crimes, as they would then no longer be accessible to any form of prevention or voluntary intervention.
		DRUG POLICY DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT In March and April 1993, the drug policy was discussed at length in Parliament.
	www.druglibrary.org /Schaffer/MISC/nethfacts.txt (6390 words)

	Salon Health & Body \| Going Dutch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But drugs, even marijuana and hash, have never been legal, are not legal now and are unlikely ever to be legalized in the Netherlands.
		That's in part because the Netherlands has become not only Europe's cannabis and cannabis-seed capital, but also a major production, warehousing and shipping center for ecstasy (and related synthetic drugs), as well as a transit country for heroin and cocaine.
		The popular misconception about the Netherlands' drug policy -- that anything goes -- stems from two quintessentially Dutch attitudes that have underpinned Dutch society for the last 400 years: tolerance and ambiguity.
	archive.salon.com /health/feature/2000/03/13/dutch_drugs/index.html (1013 words)

	MinVWS \| Drugs
		Drug policy in the Netherlands aims to reduce the demand for drugs, the supply of drugs and the risks to drug users, their immediate surroundings and society.
		The Dutch policy on drugs has been reasonably successful compared to the policies pursued in other countries, especially when it comes to prevention and care.
		The number of users of various types of drugs is no greater than in other countries, while the figure for drug-related deaths, at 2.4 per million inhabitants, is the lowest in Europe.
	www.minvws.nl /en/themes/drugs/default.asp (499 words)

	Dutch drug policy in a European context Journal of Drug Issues - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The drug policies of the Netherlands, which center squarely on harm reduction, were under severe attack in recent years.
		Debates are also underway in many countries on drug policy reform, and everything from the decriminalization or legalization of cannabis to the legal prescription of heroin have been advocated.
		While Dutch drug policy is centrally concerned with the reduction of risks associated with drug use, both to the individual and society, drug use per se is not considered a problem.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3733/is_199907/ai_n8851692 (900 words)

	The drug policy of the Netherlands \| rc6.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The drug policy of the Netherlands is based on two principles:
		The use of drugs in general is not prohibited, on the general principle of self-determination in matters of the body.
		Because of this, drug users are not prosecuted for possession of small quantities of drugs ("for personal use").
	rc6.org /node/639 (425 words)

	Salon \| Going Dutch
		The Netherlands is a major marijuana growing country (of plants and, especially, seeds for export).
		The ultimate stated goal of the Dutch government's drug policies is to "protect the health of individual users, the people around them and society as a whole," according to the Ministry of Justice.
		Rates of problem drug use (defined by the EMCDDA as "intravenous or long duration/regular use of opiates, cocaine and/or amphetamines") are lower in the Netherlands than in Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the U.K. and Norway, and almost on a par with those reported in Germany, Austria, Finland and Sweden.
	archive.salon.com /health/feature/2000/03/13/dutch_drugs/print.html (2897 words)

	20 Years Of Experience
		The drug problem is too serious an issue to be used as a political football by ambitious politicians.
		The second legal principle is a differentiation according to the nature of the punishable acts, such as the distinction between the possession of small quantities of drugs for one's own use and possession with intent to deal.
		The fact that the rate of cannabis use in the Netherlands is comparable with that in other countries (and even lower than in the United States) shows that government policy probably has less influence on use than we think.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v99.n366.a01.html (1669 words)

	Crime and Justice Abstracts: Vol. 14 (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		National drug abuse policies in the Netherlands reject law enforcement as the primary drug abuse strategy except in regard to higher levels of trafficking in hard drugs.
		It accepts the existence of the use of illegal drugs as inevitable in modern society.
		The drug policy is based on the revised Opium Act of 1976 that aims at separating the markets and the social contexts of soft drugs (cannabis), and hard drugs.
	www.journals.uchicago.edu /CJ/abstracts/CJv14p229abstract.html (146 words)

	Drug War Facts: Netherlands vs. USA
		DRUG WAR FACTS compiled by Kendra E. Wright and Paul M. Lewin for Common Sense for Drug Policy, http://www.csdp.org/ Updated: August 15, 1998 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Netherlands and the United States: Comparing Important Drug and Violence Indicators +---------------------------------------------------+ Social
		Source #8: According to the Dutch Bureau of Statistics, CBS Voorburg, as of September 30, 1996 the Netherlands had 11,931 prisoners with an approximate population of 15,424,122.
		Source #10: Drug-related law enforcement spending in the Netherlands in 1995 is estimated at 640 million Dutch Guilders according to the Dutch Justice Department.
	www.taima.org /drugfacts/nl_usa.htm (283 words)

	Drug Policy Alliance: Myths and Facts About Marijuana
		Myth: Marijuana Policy in the Netherlands is a Failure.
		In a number of other countries, drug education programs are based on a "harm reduction" model, which seeks to reduce the drug-related harm among those young people who do experiment with drugs.
		The Drug Policy Alliance is the leading organization working to end the war on drugs.
	www.drugpolicy.org /marijuana/factsmyths (2760 words)

	Drug Policy and History
		The hatred of drugs, according to this book, is the axis of politics that has fundamentally shifted the nation's policy format--from the progressive orientation that dominated from the time of Roosevelt to the Sixties, to the punitive orientation that emerged during the Nixon presidency and continues to this day.
		This triumph of the political use of drug hate is simultaneously a disaster in policy consequences as it corrupts the criminal justice system, exacerbates class inequality, drains public resources, and denies the public their Constitutional heritage.
		Drugs should be legal and state-controlled, with the profits from sales going to education programs on the harm drugs may do, treatment for addicts desiring it, and research into the causes of addiction.
	www.drugwar.com /drugpolicy.htm (10745 words)

	Editorial: Are the drug warriors really fighting for this nation's youth? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The report concludes that teens in Ireland, a country with historically "tough" policies on drugs, are using substances at higher rates than their European neighbors, and, significantly, at more than three times the rate of their compatriots living under the notoriously "lenient" drug policy of The Netherlands.
		In The Netherlands, drug policy aims to impart factual information, based upon the assumption that kids exist in the real world, where they will be faced with real choices and opportunities, including choices concerning drug use, and that kids armed with the facts will act in a more or less rational manner.
		It is worth considering that for all the assertions of the US government that Dutch drug policy is a failure, the numbers show that in rejecting the "drug free" American ideal they have, ironically, come far closer to achieving it than the American model itself.
	www.stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/018/editorial.shtml (1238 words)

	DUTCH DRUGGING NOT FOR FREEDOM
		If you're among those civil libertarians who consider the policy on drug use in the Netherlands to be enlightened, and based on some concept of liberty and victimless crime, you might want to reconsider.
		He cites as evidence his attendance of a recent event at the Dutch Embassy in Washington, billed as "a frank discussion on Dutch drug policy." The apparent intention was the debunking of the popular beliefs about the Netherlands' marijuana-cafes, needle-exchange programs, and alleged preference for treatment over imprisonment with regard to drug abuse.
		The only real difference," he concluded, "is that the Dutch drug policy isn't quite as violent, coercive, or destructive as U.S. drug policy, but the Dutch approach is every bit as contemptuous of individual freedom or personal autonomy as the U.S. approach.
	www.freemarketnews.com /WorldNews.asp?nid=4202 (545 words)

	MinVWS \| Progress report on the Drug policy in the Netherlands 2001- 2002
		The progress report on drug policy 2001 - 2002 gives a broad picture of developments in the drug policy of the Netherlands.
		It provides information about drug use, monitoring, prevention, addict care, the fight against drug-related crime and international collaboration.
		Progress report on the Drug policy in the Netherlands 2001- 2002 (new window) Documentation
	www.minvws.nl /en/folders/gvm/progress_report_on_the_drug_policy_in_the_netherlands_2001__2002.asp (121 words)

	Q and A on Dutch Drug Policy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Netherlands are, however, front runner in the EU regarding lifetime prevalence of cocaine use among 15/16 year old secondary school pupils.
		Finally, it should be noted that these figures demonstrate that it is particularly difficult to prove a relationship from cause to effect between drug use (both in the sense of lifetime prevalence and in the sense of last month prevalence) and drug policies, like the Netwerk program pretends to have established.
		As for the policies pursued, reference can be made to the recently presented Progress Report on Drug Policy 1997-1999, in which among other things the prevention-strategy of the Government is described.
	www.stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/137/dutchqa.shtml (1480 words)

	Drug War Facts: The Netherlands and the United States – A Comparison
		According to the 1995 report of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in Lisbon, the Dutch figures are the lowest in Europe.
		Source: Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, Drug Policy in the Netherlands: Progress Report September 1997-September 1999, (The Hague: Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, November 1999), p.
		Source: Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, Drug Policy in the Netherlands: Progress Report September 1997-September 1999, (The Hague: Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, November 1999), pp.
	www.drugwarfacts.org /thenethe.htm (943 words)

	revolution: netherlands drug policy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For decades, the Netherlands has had the least restrictive drug policy of any Western European nation.
		Although the Netherlands' drug policy statement declared no intention to legalize any drugs, it also reaffirmed the existing policy of allowing marijuana to be sold openly in "coffee shops" and expanded the amount of marijuana which could be grown for personal use or sale to the coffee shops.
		The reduction is aimed at stopping "drug tourists" who buy marijuana in the Netherlands to take back home to other countries.
	www.boogieonline.com /revolution/body/drugs/usage/netherlands.html (248 words)

	Drug Policy Alliance: The Netherlands
		In order to appreciate the Dutch approach to drug policy, certain characteristics of Dutch society must be kept in mind.
		During the 1970’s a violent heroin market led the Dutch government to establish a drug policy working group which came to be known as the Baan Commission.
		Dutch drug policy gives priority to health care and prevention while, simultaneously, directing aggressive enforcement measures against organized crime.
	www.drugpolicy.org /global/drugpolicyby/westerneurop/thenetherlan (787 words)

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