Between Prohibition and Legalization: The Dutch Experiment in Drug PolicyEd Leuw, Ineke Haen Marshall Kugler Publications, 1994 - 335 pages In a period of two decades Dutch drug policy has evolved in partial opposition to the internationally dominant ideology of prohibitionism. The "normalizing" home policy, together with the compliance to law enforcement in the international arena, make up a rather complicated and ambivalent Dutch position in drug policy. The Dutch drug policy is fully in line with the international control practices against wholesale drug trafficking. In regards to its social drug policy, however, it has become a rare dissenter within an increasingly unifying and compelling international drug policy context. This book gives an account of the national Dutch drug control strategy. |
Contents
Initial construction and development of the official Dutch | 23 |
Enforcing drug laws in the Netherlands | 41 |
Drugs as a public health problem assistance and treatment | 59 |
Dutch prison drug policy towards an intermediate | 75 |
LIMITED PROBLEMS AND MODERATE MEASURES | 95 |
Drug tourists and drug refugees | 119 |
Snacks sex and smack the ecology of the drug trade | 145 |
The development of a legal consumers market | 169 |
The drugrelated crime project in the city of Rotterdam | 183 |
Drug prevention in the Netherlands a lowkey approach | 205 |
Legalization decriminalization and the reduction of crime | 233 |
The future of the Dutch model in the context of the | 255 |
An economic view on Dutch drugs policy | 283 |
Is Dutch drug policy an example to the world? | 311 |
About the authors | 337 |
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