From: [lamon t g] at [u.washington.edu] (Lamont Granquist)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs,rec.drugs.misc,alt.drugs
Subject: Dutch to review their controversial drug policy
Date: 12 Sep 1995 09:22:56 GMT


	 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuter) - After a 20-year experiment
which has enraged neighboring countries and turned Amsterdam
into a mecca for European youth, the Netherlands is about to
tighten the world's most liberal drug policy.
[...]
	 European Union partners are demanding a tough stance. France
has threatened to block the Schengen agreement on open borders,
claiming the flow of drugs from the Netherlands is unstoppable.
[...]
	 Instead, the government is expected to clamp down on the
number of coffee shops and close those they even vaguely suspect
of links with organized crime.
	 But it will continue to treat addicts as people who need
help rather than as criminals and will also maintain distinct
policies on hard and soft drugs. In short, residents and
tourists alike will still be able to smoke a joint with
impunity.
[...]

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