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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (25203)	11/23/2008 1:38:01 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25737

Holland's Half-Baked Drug Experiment Larry Collins From Foreign Affairs, May/June 1999 Article preview: first 500 of 6,008 words total. Summary: The Netherlands' vaunted drug policies -- legalizing the public sale of cannabis products in the now-famous coffee shops and adopting a generally lenient attitude toward drug use -- have turned the country into the narcotics capital of western Europe. Dutch cops admit that Holland is to synthetic drugs what Colombia is to cocaine. Not only is Holland's increasingly potent marijuana not staying in the legal coffee shops, but its illegal export brings in far more money than that traditional Dutch export, tulips. Meanwhile, drug addiction has tripled. There are no easy answers to drugs, but naive Dutch legislators have made a hash of drug policy. Larry Collins is the coauthor, with Dominique LaPierre, of numerous books including Is Paris Burning?, O Jerusalem!, and Freedom at Midnight. foreignaffairs.org