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In the five months I lived in the Netherlands, I never met one Dutch person who regularly smoked pot. The cafes were used mostly by tourists, and your average run-of-the-mill pot smoker. Regulars would go to a special cafe after work, like folks go to their neighborhood bar. The general attitude was, basically, who cares. People are like children. Once you take away the forbidden mystery of it all, interest wanes. Big time.
and that is the reason why decriminalization is stupid. Yes you solve one problem by not going after users but you still have not solved the major issue and that's drug lords and crime. Legalize totally so you can regulate EVERYTHING.
BERLIN (Reuters) - BMW drivers have more sex than owners of any other cars and are much more active than Porsche drivers, a new German car magazine has found.
The German magazine "Men's Car" found in a survey of 2,253 motorists aged 20 to 50 published in its inaugural May issue that male BMW drivers say they have sex on average 2.2 times each week while Porsche drivers have sex 1.4 times per week.
Following BMW drivers were Audi (2.1), Volkswagen (1.9), Ford (1.7) and Mercedes (1.6). Drivers of foreign car makes were also behind BMW with Italian cars (2.0), French (1.9), Japanese (1.8), Swedish (1.6) and Korean cars (1.5) trailing after.
Among women, French car drivers were top with 2.1 times per week followed by Audi (2.0), Italian (2.0), and BMW (1.9) with Porsche again at the bottom of the scale at 1.2 times per week.
moral of the story is.....studies are just studies and cannot be held as factual truth
The summit comes in the wake of last week's decision by the south- western Dutch towns of Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom to gradually close their local "coffee shops" in an attempt to reduce drug-related crimes.
All Dutch cities and towns close to the German or Belgian borders are invited to the summit. After the summit, the VNG will present the cities' common position to the government.
The goal, according to VNG, is to get the government to negotiate an international soft drugs policy with Belgium and Germany.
The Netherlands effectively decriminalized soft drugs a few decades ago when it introduced a policy of "non-enforcement." Although possession and cultivation of cannabis remains technically illegal in Holland, law enforcement has systematically turned a blind eye, and the courts usually rule in favor of individual defendants.
The sale and use of so-called soft drugs, such as marijuana, is legal in designated stores, usually referred to as "coffee shops." Maastricht suffering most from drug-related crime Maastricht mayor Gerd Leers calls the current Dutch drugs policy "hypocritical." He says it enables drug-related crime and also increases the sale and distribution of hard drugs, such as heroin. Maastricht is one of the Dutch cities suffering most from drug- related crime. The city is visited by more than 1.5 million drugs tourists per year and has 16 "coffee shops," 10 more than in Dutch cities of comparable size not located close to the border.
Police estimate Maastricht also has more than 100 "soft drugs supermarkets," illegal stores where one can purchase soft drugs in larger quantities than the 5 grams per person allowed under Dutch law. Leers says police officers in his city deal with triple the amount of crime as their colleagues in the metropolitan area of The Hague. Most of the crime in Maastricht is drug-related, and the number of drug-related murders each year is increasing, according to police officials.
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