tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43373724255994551342024-08-30T11:27:20.872-07:00BloggersMy blogAleckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668780155030123466noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4337372425599455134.post-38631111954998263442011-04-02T23:44:00.001-07:002011-04-02T23:45:02.983-07:00Drugs in Netherlands.I live in the Netherlands so I thought I would share this with you guys.(I found this on Wikipedia.)<br />
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<div id="siteSub" style="display: inline; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div><div id="contentSub" style="color: #7d7d7d; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: auto;"></div><div class="thumb tright" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 1.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><div class="thumbinner" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 3px !important; padding-left: 3px !important; padding-right: 3px !important; padding-top: 3px !important; text-align: center; width: 252px;"><a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CoffeeShopAmsterdam.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="180" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/CoffeeShopAmsterdam.jpg/250px-CoffeeShopAmsterdam.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; vertical-align: middle;" width="250" /></a><br />
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px !important; padding-left: 3px !important; padding-right: 3px !important; padding-top: 3px !important; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; float: right;"><a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CoffeeShopAmsterdam.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; color: #0645ad; display: block; text-decoration: none;" title="Enlarge"><img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial; display: block; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></a></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_coffee_shop" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Cannabis coffee shop</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Amsterdam</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Netherlands</a></div></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">The <b>drug policy of the Netherlands</b> officially has four major objectives:</div><ol style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-image: none; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 3.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">To prevent recreational drug use and to treat and rehabilitate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_drug_use" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Recreational drug use">recreational drug</a> users.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">To reduce harm to users.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">To diminish public nuisance by drug users (the disturbance of public order and safety in the neighbourhood).</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">To combat the production and trafficking of recreational drugs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nationalR_0-0" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands#cite_note-nationalR-0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup></li>
</ol><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Most policymakers in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Netherlands</a> believe that if a problem has proved to be unsolvable, it is better to try controlling it and reducing harm instead of continuing to enforce laws with mixed results. By contrast, most other countries take the point of view that recreational drug use is detrimental to society and must therefore be outlawed. This has caused friction between the Netherlands and other countries about the policy for cannabis, most notably with<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">France</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Germany</a>. As of 2004, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Belgium</a> seems to be moving toward the Dutch model and a few local German legislators are calling for experiments based on the Dutch model. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Switzerland</a> has had long and heated parliamentary debates about whether to follow the Dutch model on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">cannabis</a>, most recently deciding against it in 2004; currently a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Initiative">ballot initiative</a> is in the works on the question. In the last few years certain strains of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">cannabis</a> with higher concentrations of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THC" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="THC">THC</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_tourism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">drug tourism</a> have challenged the current policy and led to a re-examination of the current approach.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands#cite_note-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">While the legalization of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">cannabis</a> remains controversial, the introduction of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin-assisted_treatment" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">heroin-assisted treatment</a> in 1998 has been lauded for considerably improving the health and social situation of opiate-dependent patients in the Netherlands.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands#cite_note-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup> In 2010 research shows that the "heroin-junkies" have disappeared from the streets of the Netherlands and the treatment is upgraded from a test-trial to standard treatment for otherwise untreatable addicts. Also, the number of heroin addicts has dropped by more than 30% since 1983.</div>Aleckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668780155030123466noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4337372425599455134.post-36633789627026730062011-03-28T07:47:00.000-07:002011-03-28T07:47:11.116-07:00Hey there.I have got to known some more friends here on BlogSpot which is nice, I will definitely be writing some stories here which occurred to me in my-life.<br />
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I hope to meet many more nice and lovely people.Aleckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668780155030123466noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4337372425599455134.post-73581416168200663702011-03-27T23:57:00.000-07:002011-03-27T23:57:01.206-07:00A little something called, me.My name is Fatih, 18-years old.<br />
I live in Amsterdam. That is kind of it for now.<br />
I will post more stuff about me later on.Aleckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668780155030123466noreply@blogger.com5