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	Hard and soft drugs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term hard drug generally refers to drugs illegal for nonmedical use that lead to profound and severe addiction, as opposed to soft drugs that are either only mildly psychologically addictive or non-addictive.
		The term soft drug is most usually applied to cannabis (marijuana or hashish) because it is not associated with deaths, crime or violence amongst users and is without evidence of physical addiction.
		The drug policy of the Netherlands classifies synthetic hallucinogens such as LSD (acid) and MDMA (ecstasy) as hard drugs, although they have very similar action to naturally occurring drugs such as mescaline, which is considered a soft drug in its natural form of peyote, or psilocybin in its natural form as psilocybe (magic mushrooms).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hard_and_soft_drugs (412 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This differentiation has been enshrined in legislation since 1976 whereby possession of hard drugs is a crime and the possession of a small quantity of soft drugs is a minor offence for which no legal action is taken.
		Trading in hard drugs is banned, and it is prohibited to sell to persons under 18 years of age, no advertising is permitted, and the maximum amount per transaction per client is 5 grammes.
		Where more than 500 grammes of soft drugs are found on the premises, or where hard drugs are being sold, or where the premises is the centre of a public nuisance, the police have powers to close the premises - on the authority of the mayor and aldermen.
	members.chello.nl /~p.lamont/Amsterdam/drugs.htm (1645 words)

	Drugs policy in the Netherlands: The history of drugs policy in the Netherlands
		As elsewhere, however, drugs policy in the Netherlands is also aimed at raising the threshold for the use of hard drugs as much as possible by the strict use of the criminal law.
		Soft drugs are bought and sold and used on a large scale in and near places of entertainment frequented by young people in the big cities in all the above-mentioned countries.
		Soft drugs are readily available to young people in towns and cities all over the Western world*.
	www.drugtext.org /library/reports/wvc/drugnota/0/s11.htm (1553 words)

	PROHIBITION OF HARD DRUGS IS HARMFUL TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
		The prohibition of addictive intoxicants, the so called hard drugs, is not founded on public health arguments, but on a mixture of moral and ideological considerations, on prejudice, erroneous thinking and a lack of factual knowledge, and last but not least, on irrational fear.
		With regard to drugs, data concerning the recreational, unproblematic consumption is scarce, and to draw a parallel, you have to imagine a policy on tobacco that is determined only by purely clinical-medical data on lung cancer, coronary heart disease, delirium tremens and the Korsakov syndrome.
		When access to hard drugs becomes easier, we have to be prepared to face problems arising in at least three risk groups: marginalised and socially deprived young people, some groups of psychiatric patients and those addicted people who have become dependent on an institution for their methadone or other prescribed drug.
	www.drugtext.org /library/articles/freek1.html (3115 words)

	Stepping Off Hard Drugs With Cannabis
		Hard and soft drugs are placed in distinct and separate microsettings of use, as indicated in fieldnote 1.
		When Gerrit began his heroin use, hard drugs were not separated or "partitioned" from either soft drugs or the rest of society, in the way the walls of Platform Zero separate it from the rest of the city.
		This pathway to hard drugs also exists in the Netherlands, as is indicated by the case of Mohammed in fieldnote 5.
	www.equalrights4all.org /potpride/steppingoff.htm (8601 words)

	Drugs policy in the Netherlands: continuity and change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The sale of drugs, drug-related crime and certain types of anti-social behaviour by addicts, such as throwing away used needles in public places, mean that the tolerance levels of residents in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the big cities in particular are chronically exceeded.
		Drug tourism occurs in various municipalities along the eastern and southern borders of the Netherlands, such as Arnhem, Venlo, Heerlen and Maastricht, and in a number of towns further into the interior of the country.
		Dutch policy on hard drug addicts has for a long time been based on the principle that addicts should be treated as patients requiring treatment for their addiction, that treatment being geared to ensuring their abstinence from drugs in future.
	www.taima.org /nl/nl_uk.htm (20824 words)

	BBC News \| TALKING POINT \| Are police too soft on hard drugs?
		If soft drugs lead onto harder drugs, as people have been suggesting, then it is because most people go to drug dealers who sell hard drugs to get their weed.
		Here in Holland hard drugs are certainly not "prevalent"; in fact countries like France and the UK (who have much tougher drug laws) also have more heroin addicts if you look at the real numbers.
		Drugs are drugs are drugs and they threaten the fabric of society.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/632812.stm (4832 words)

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		For this reason the penalties that may be imposed for drug-related offences and the priority given to the various offences in investigation and prosecution policy, vary in accordance with the nature of both the offence and the substance in question.
		In addition to the prevention of drug use, considerable attention is devoted to the risk of addiction to hard drugs as a result of occasional use.
		The possession of less than 30 grams of soft drugs is a summary offence and also has a low priority in policy on investigations and prosecutions.
	www.healthlaw.nl /drugs1.html (3472 words)

	Harm Reduction Pretense - Substituting "soft" drugs for "hard" drugs is not harm reduction - Heroin Helper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Drugs that are eaten tend to be seen as soft (e.g.
		Drugs that are injected tend to be seen as hard (e.g.
		Both drugs have the same "active ingredient" (morphine), but heroin is a "harder" drug.
	www.heroinhelper.com /angry/harm_reduction.shtml (467 words)

	DUTCH DRUGS POLICY IN THE YEARS TO COME
		The possession of a quantity of soft drugs forpersonal use - up to a maximum of 30 grammes - is regarded as a summary offense (a minor offense), which will not usually lead to prosecution.
		Some of the nuisance encountered in the Netherlands is caused by foreign drug addicts residing illegally in the Netherlands and drug tourists from neighbouring EU countries who enter the country in order to buy hard drugs.
		As far as hard drugs are concerned, the serious health hazards their use entails constitutes the main argument against legalisation.
	www.xs4all.nl /~advocare/folder51.htm (1638 words)

	Guardian \| Tories too hard on soft drugs says poll
		To reinforce the Tories' battered street credibility it emerged yesterday that the shadow home secretary, Ann Widdecombe, is not ignorant of drug culture: her nephew, Sean Widdecombe, told the News of the World how he spent years in the grip of cannabis use and cocaine addiction.
		But Mr Hague will be hard-pressed to put much blue water between himself and the prime minister on the drugs issue since both major parties - though not the Liberal Democrats - believe that decriminalisation of soft drugs would send the wrong signal to young people tempted by more dangerous ones.
		Significantly, voters make a distinction between hard and soft drugs, saying by 64% to 17% that the police should spend less time prosecuting the latter instead of "clamping down" on heroin and cocaine use.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4077111-103685,00.html (665 words)

	'Soft' And 'Hard' Drugs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		All drugs are harmful, in some way, and enforcement against all illegal substances continues.
		I have acknowledged that some drugs cause particular damage to individuals and the community, and that we should address their availability and misuse as a particular priority.
		Drug action teams across the country have recently submitted to me their action plans for the coming year: and over 200 million pounds extra has been allocated over the next three years for anti-drugs activity.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v99.n071.a11.html (286 words)

	Soft Drugs With Hard Consequences \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 14.05.2006
		The biggest group to use the drug were young adults: nearly 50 percent of 18-to-24 year-olds have consumed the substance at least once.
		Federal Drug Commissioner Sabine Bätzing recently presented a national report on drugs and addiction which stated that young people are starting to smoke marijuana at an increasingly younger age.
		Christian Stasik, a neurologist based in a small town near Cologne, spoke of young people who had said they were overcome by anxiety or panic attacks, constant outbreaks of sweat or racing of the heart.
	www.dw-world.de /popups/popup_printcontent/0,,1997488,00.html (690 words)

	The Partial Observer - Hard on Drugs, Soft in the Head
		It has failed both times, although Rohrabacher believes if voting were conducted by secret ballot politicians who fear being branded as soft on drugs during a re-election campaign would likely have voted for it.
		Legalizing a medical treatment is not drug abuse, nor is it a prediction of drug abuse.
		Addictive drugs will be abused whether they are legal or not.
	www.partialobserver.com /article.cfm?id=1323 (668 words)

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	gyxe.com /anxiety/0-211-drugs-read.shtml (3413 words)

	Italy's New Hard Line on Soft Drugs Sparks Row (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A bill drawn up by the deputy prime minister and leader of Italy's former neo-fascists, Gianfranco Fini, abolishes distinctions between "hard" and "soft" drugs and introduces stiff penalties for possession as well as trafficking.
		Surveys show that the number of users runs to several million and that a third of all university students have tried soft drugs.
		Father Pierino Gelmini of the Incontro community, which helps victims of drugs and alcohol, said: "All drugs do harm.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v03/n1767/a05.html?1138 (487 words)

	cannabisnews.com: Italy's New Hard Line on Soft Drugs Sparks Row
		cannabisnews.com: Italy's New Hard Line on Soft Drugs Sparks Row
		Cannabis users caught with more than a few days' supply face jail sentences.
		Mr Fini said: "Taking drugs is not an innocuous exercise of freedoms that cannot be curbed, but a rejection of the most elementary duties of the individual towards the various communities in which he or she actually lives."Who is Mr.
	cannabisnews.com /news/thread17798.shtml (588 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Tories too hard on soft drugs says poll
		Letters: Making a hash of the drug laws
		Nor, David Blunkett, the education secretary, confirmed yesterday, did he.
		He will accuse ministers of being "too grand" to address local and regional problems which "do not grab national headlines."
	www.guardian.co.uk /drugs/Story/0,2763,383097,00.html (705 words)

	Odeo: Debra J. Saunders -- Washington is hard on drugs, soft on suffering
		Odeo: Debra J. Saunders -- Washington is hard on drugs, soft on suffering
		Debra J. Saunders -- Washington is hard on drugs, soft on suffering
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