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I thought you would be exaggerating but searching for "Netherlands" and "narco state" revealed a scarily large number of articles, some of which are several yea
by _Microft 5y ago
I thought you would be exaggerating but searching for "Netherlands" and "narco state" revealed a scarily large number of articles, some of which are several years old already. I wonder how I could have missed that.
I was already aware that the Netherlands had a drug problem in general, both by smuggling via their huge ports and by cartels producing them locally. I had even submitted a map [0] with locations of amphetamine production sites not long ago and most of them are in the Netherlands but the amount of crime that seems to accompany it is frightening.
[0] https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/media-library/map-location-sites-related-amphetamine-production-eu-2015-17_en https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/media-library/map-location-site...
- lwn 5y agoCriminalising goods which are in high demand seem to have that effect.
- sime2009 5y agoThanks for the map. That is interesting. > the amount of crime that seems to accompany it is frightening Do you have some kind of source that last statement? Do you mean frightening as in "big" or frightening as in "it scares me"?
- jacquesm 5y agoIn a word: Rotterdam. We have Mexican cartel bozos operating inside the country in their own labs preparing drugs for further distribution into the european market.