The United Nations is manipulating figures to show that the Dutch progressive drugpolicy, doesn't work, according to Tim Boekhout van Solinge, criminologist of the university of Utrecht.
"it's not a coincidence. De UN wants to make the impression that it's gone completely out of hand which isn't true. The opposite: the Netherlands are doing very well.
An example according to Boekhout van Solinge, is the World Drug Report of 2000 where we could read that the Netherlands had the largest number of drugaddicts in the EU at that time. "The UN had rewritten the list with 15 EU countries, consolidating Luxembourgh, Belgium and the Netherlands together.
This was already dubious because that way, the country with the largest amount of drugaddicts, Luxembourgh, was put together with the country with the least amount of drugaddicts, the Netherlands. Besides that, the data was not related to the number of people but simply averaged. The message to the outside world was clear: Dutch drugpolicy does not work.
The UN are a selfproclaimed supporter of the war on drugs. This war against growers, dealers and users has to lead to a drugfree world. All experts are saying for years that this war can never be won. It's only getting worse according to Boekhout van Solinge.
At this time, the UN values Sweden as the big example. Since 1977 Sweden is battling drugs with great repression. This is a great succes, that is, according to the UN reports. Sweden has the lowest number of cannabis user of Europe. But also in the case of Sweden, facts are manipulated. Like the Netherlands has less drugsaddicts as Sweden for example. Or that 8% of the Swedish youth is sniffing glue and also, Sweden has the largest numbers of fatalities in combination with drugs.
The UN's vision on drugs is untrustworthy and unscientific.
There are other international organizations manipulating opinions and reseach as well to justify the war on drugs. The criminologist: at a conference of the WHO about cocaine, all experts agreed that the great majority of cocaine users. where able to balance their use of this substance. Cocaine is not a big problem, was the conclusion. Under pressure of the US government, this was kept away from the public.
Another example? One WHO report about cannabis drew a dramatic picture of that drug. But if you study the underlying documents you will also find that part of the research was looking at what would happen if cannabis was as widely used as alcohol and tobacco. The conclusion was that cannabis was less destructive. This was kept out of the report.
Source of this article :
http://www.depers.nl/buitenland/150306/ ... jfers.html
It's in Dutch only so I summarized/translated most of it for you
"it's not a coincidence. De UN wants to make the impression that it's gone completely out of hand which isn't true. The opposite: the Netherlands are doing very well.
An example according to Boekhout van Solinge, is the World Drug Report of 2000 where we could read that the Netherlands had the largest number of drugaddicts in the EU at that time. "The UN had rewritten the list with 15 EU countries, consolidating Luxembourgh, Belgium and the Netherlands together.
This was already dubious because that way, the country with the largest amount of drugaddicts, Luxembourgh, was put together with the country with the least amount of drugaddicts, the Netherlands. Besides that, the data was not related to the number of people but simply averaged. The message to the outside world was clear: Dutch drugpolicy does not work.
The UN are a selfproclaimed supporter of the war on drugs. This war against growers, dealers and users has to lead to a drugfree world. All experts are saying for years that this war can never be won. It's only getting worse according to Boekhout van Solinge.
At this time, the UN values Sweden as the big example. Since 1977 Sweden is battling drugs with great repression. This is a great succes, that is, according to the UN reports. Sweden has the lowest number of cannabis user of Europe. But also in the case of Sweden, facts are manipulated. Like the Netherlands has less drugsaddicts as Sweden for example. Or that 8% of the Swedish youth is sniffing glue and also, Sweden has the largest numbers of fatalities in combination with drugs.
The UN's vision on drugs is untrustworthy and unscientific.
There are other international organizations manipulating opinions and reseach as well to justify the war on drugs. The criminologist: at a conference of the WHO about cocaine, all experts agreed that the great majority of cocaine users. where able to balance their use of this substance. Cocaine is not a big problem, was the conclusion. Under pressure of the US government, this was kept away from the public.
Another example? One WHO report about cannabis drew a dramatic picture of that drug. But if you study the underlying documents you will also find that part of the research was looking at what would happen if cannabis was as widely used as alcohol and tobacco. The conclusion was that cannabis was less destructive. This was kept out of the report.
Source of this article :
http://www.depers.nl/buitenland/150306/ ... jfers.html
It's in Dutch only so I summarized/translated most of it for you
