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Not incongruous, I think. By basically legalising drugs, prostitution, and similar victimless peccadillos (and focusing on treatment and support instead), you d
by FabHK 6y ago
Not incongruous, I think. By basically legalising drugs, prostitution, and similar victimless peccadillos (and focusing on treatment and support instead), you destroy the mob's business model, reduce opportunity for corruption, and allow cops to concentrate on real crime.
- mustafa_pasi 6y agoBut actually the opposite is happening in the Netherlands. There are drug labs basically everywhere in the countryside. All global organized crime syndicates have a local presence. With regards to prostitution, human trafficking has actually increased and prostitutes get imported and pimped out. Half the business is legal so the police have even less incentive to care, especially if the victim and the pimp are both foreign. Basically free tax money and no harm (to ethnic Dutch people). There's also lots of arms trafficking.
- FabHK 6y agoOh wow, I didn't realise it was so bad.
- aden1ne 6y agoThe Netherlands may even have the worst drug laws in existence. Cannabis is not legalized, it's "tolerated". This means it's legal to sell and buy cannabis, but it is _not_ legal to grow it in any sizeable quantities[note]. This means the legal part of the cannabis sector relies exclusively on criminal activity. So instead of replacing the criminal business model, it instead depends on it. Note: Since 2020 there have been some minor experiments with letting municipalities grow cannabis.