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Relaxed Dutch drugs policy may end
201108 Coffeeshop ANP-8552193.jpg The policy on soft drugs ... commission has admitted the current drugs policy has gone too far and it should be changed. A strictly ... . The Netherlands’ relaxed policy on cannabis and other soft drugs should become much stricter to contain the policy’s ...
FAQ - Soft drugs in the Netherlands
. However, it is not an offence to use drugs. - Who administers the drugs policy in the Netherlands? To achieve a cohesive strategy, various ministries share the responsibility for drugs policy. The Ministry ... is the rationale for the Dutch policy on the use of soft drugs? The national drug policy officially has four ...
Czech drug policy goes Dutch
drug policy in Europe. Probably against their will, the Czechs have found themselves at the forefront of the permissive lobby on drugs. The Czech Republic traditionally pursued a policy which ... policy does not differ from the Dutch. For Nathalie Dekker of the drugs information hotline ...
Amsterdam mayor wants different drug policy
drugs.jpg Amsterdam's Mayor Job Cohen wants the government to adopt different drug policies in major cities and border regions. In a letter to Interior Minister Guusje ... will find it easier to buy drugs from third parties. (Amsterdam, drugs, Dutch drug policy, Interior ...
Dutch soft drugs advocates critical of new cabinet policy
of the Dutch soft drugs policy is a difficult issue politically. The three parties that make up the Dutch ... drugs advocates strongly disagree. Raymond Dufour of the Netherlands Drug Policy Foundation says ... parties in the cabinet with no real solution to the problems in the current soft drugs policy ...
Drug tolerance policy survives
coffeeshop terneuzen.jpg The cabinet is due to discuss its soft drugs policy on Friday, but a letter leaked to the press suggests it does not intend to abandon the policy of tolerance ... drugs, tolerance policy) ...
US revises Afghanistan drug policy
Holbrooke, Taliban, US drug policy) ... a radical revision of its anti-drugs strategy in Afghanistan. He said the US will now cease its attempts to destroy the poppy harvest and concentrate instead on intercepting drugs and drug traffickers. Mr ...
Landmark coffeeshop court case puts spotlight on Dutch drug laws
here in the Netherlands: a landmark court case against a coffeeshop puts Dutch drug policy ... :15 - 23 November 2009 15:45 (coffeeshops, Dutch drugs policy, Holland House ...
Latin America adopts the tolerance policy
of soft drugs for private use. While the Netherlands is progressively losing the reputation of being extremely tolerant when it comes to soft drugs, South America seems to be adopting a new tendency. “You see them lying in the street,” says the father of the drug addict, Cristian. “Drugs send you ...
Pakistan extremists use new tactics
:45 (Burka, cocaine, drugs, Dutch drugs policy, Islam, Lahore, newsline, Pakistan, the Netherlands, UNESCO) ... against the burka and a Dutch drugs factory during World War I supplied soldiers on all sides ... reasons. One, it was completely legal and two, it was selling cocaine and other drugs to soldiers from ...
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