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- AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Long famed for its casual attitude to marijuana use, the Dutch capital Amsterdam says it now has a serious problem with hard drugs that has brought increased violence and corruption at the hands of "hustlers, parasites and extortionists".
www.reuters.com/article/world/heady-days-of-amsterdams-drug-culture-turn-bad-as-hard-stuff-brings-violence-a-idUSKCN1VI1OM/Heady days of Amsterdam's drug culture turn bad as hard stuff ...
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Across the Netherlands, drug experts like Pieter Tops and Jan Tromp — who wrote an influential 2019 report on the “dark side” of Amsterdam — believe some coffeeshops are part of a chain of ever more violent and lucrative drugs criminality, with shops, bars and property used to launder the money (part of a dodgy €16 billion a year that ...
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Yes, we have a narco-state." His words echo in a society that has been convulsed by a murder that went far beyond the bubble of the criminal underworld. The deadly shooting of Derk Wiersum...
Jan 25, 2024 · The sale and use of cocaine and other drugs should no longer be a punishable offense, said Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema in an interview in the Financieele Dagblad (FD). According to the mayor, the fight against drugs is "perverse and counterproductive."
Jan 5, 2024 · Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema warned that the Netherlands is at a critical point where national and international drug policy is violently colliding with international drug trafficking, which "has become more lucrative, professional and ruthlessly violent."
Aug 28, 2019 · AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Long famed for its casual attitude to marijuana use, the Dutch capital Amsterdam says it now has a serious problem with hard drugs that has brought increased violence...
Oct 20, 2021 · Drug gangs in the Netherlands have long since graduated from hashish to cocaine - and from dealing on the streets to a spree of contract killings. Police, lawyers, journalists: All are at risk...
Jul 27, 2024 · Hard drugs have circulated in recent years, leading this beautiful, postcard-like country, an economic power, dotted with windmills, tulips and bicycles, to suddenly come to be described as a...
