University of Tilberg researcher on soft drugs
Posted: Tue 2nd Aug 2011 10:19 am
If you read Dutch, this journal should be interesting.
http://www.hetccv.nl/binaries/content/a ... g_2011.pdf
"Tolerance policy of soft drugs should be restored '
Marco Visser - 02/08/11, 10:23
We must go back to the origins of tolerance for coffee shops, ensuring the health of consumers. Screens with higher penalties surrounding soft drug crime does not work, because producers do not think in terms of punishment.
Nicole Maalste, researcher at the University of Tilburg, makes these statements about the coffee shop policy in the latest issue Secondant (PDF file) of the Centre for Crime and Security.
According Maalste is nonsense to say that the tolerance is bankrupt. Coffee shops operate according to its fine. Thus the market for hard and soft drugs is separated, which is one of the objectives of the policy of tolerance was. "The real cause of the nuisance caused by the soft drug trade is that the government has shown tolerance slippers and therefore undesirable effects have occurred." These undesirable effects are mainly on the back of the soft drugs policy, the cultivation and supply.
Maalste takes a stand against the ease with which police, judiciary and politicians with "wrong numbers and assumptions" to prove that coffee shops are a threat to security and an end to the toleration of cannabis.
"It is a constantly repeated mantra of incorrect figures and assumptions that are not based on the actual situation." As an example, they exaggerate the nuisance associated with coffee shops, the fire in hemp farms and eighty percent of cannabis cultivation for export would be intended.
According to criminologist makes the security thinking of the government Rutte the situation in the cannabis industry only more criminal and dangerous to consumers. "People who are already engaged in other criminal activities, take their methods used in the cannabis industry. Marijuana is cut and weighted, like cocaine and heroin, which decreases the quality of the weed with all its consequences." The stricter policy, the number of coffee shops now significantly reduced, allowing the remaining shops to get more crowded and more nuisance, says Maalste.
Also on wietpas Maalste is not positive. This pass coffee shops are more or less private clubs. Only adult Dutch have the consent only upon presentation of the coffee shop to visit. "In other countries you have Cannabis Social Clubs, but people smoke weed to set themselves apart. We have a different pot culture. Dutch profiling does not specifically as a blower. Everyone from construction workers to lawyers, blowt here. In addition, anyone can establish an association. A private club does not guarantee that a government gets a grip on cannabis. "
http://www.hetccv.nl/binaries/content/a ... g_2011.pdf
"Tolerance policy of soft drugs should be restored '
Marco Visser - 02/08/11, 10:23
We must go back to the origins of tolerance for coffee shops, ensuring the health of consumers. Screens with higher penalties surrounding soft drug crime does not work, because producers do not think in terms of punishment.
Nicole Maalste, researcher at the University of Tilburg, makes these statements about the coffee shop policy in the latest issue Secondant (PDF file) of the Centre for Crime and Security.
According Maalste is nonsense to say that the tolerance is bankrupt. Coffee shops operate according to its fine. Thus the market for hard and soft drugs is separated, which is one of the objectives of the policy of tolerance was. "The real cause of the nuisance caused by the soft drug trade is that the government has shown tolerance slippers and therefore undesirable effects have occurred." These undesirable effects are mainly on the back of the soft drugs policy, the cultivation and supply.
Maalste takes a stand against the ease with which police, judiciary and politicians with "wrong numbers and assumptions" to prove that coffee shops are a threat to security and an end to the toleration of cannabis.
"It is a constantly repeated mantra of incorrect figures and assumptions that are not based on the actual situation." As an example, they exaggerate the nuisance associated with coffee shops, the fire in hemp farms and eighty percent of cannabis cultivation for export would be intended.
According to criminologist makes the security thinking of the government Rutte the situation in the cannabis industry only more criminal and dangerous to consumers. "People who are already engaged in other criminal activities, take their methods used in the cannabis industry. Marijuana is cut and weighted, like cocaine and heroin, which decreases the quality of the weed with all its consequences." The stricter policy, the number of coffee shops now significantly reduced, allowing the remaining shops to get more crowded and more nuisance, says Maalste.
Also on wietpas Maalste is not positive. This pass coffee shops are more or less private clubs. Only adult Dutch have the consent only upon presentation of the coffee shop to visit. "In other countries you have Cannabis Social Clubs, but people smoke weed to set themselves apart. We have a different pot culture. Dutch profiling does not specifically as a blower. Everyone from construction workers to lawyers, blowt here. In addition, anyone can establish an association. A private club does not guarantee that a government gets a grip on cannabis. "