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In autumn of , Dutch television viewers met year-old Boaz from the city of Arnhem, who described not sleeping for days while using a new drug, 3-MMC. Documentary series Verdoofd Numb showed Boaz using a massive knife to do small bumps of the white powder. He said he needed a hit before he did anything, including folding laundry. Ever since his story aired, Dutch news media have been obsessed with 3-MMC, also known as metaphedrone — a designer drug from the cathinone family that closely resembles 4-MMC, or mephedrone. Most countries that have banned 4-MMC have also banned 3-MMC due to its similar structure, but in the Netherlands it can still be bought legally. The mayors banded together to write a letter to the head of the Dutch justice department, bringing attention to the fact that 3-MMC was still legally available. So if 3-MMC is so awful and addictive, why would people want to try it in the first place? Alarmist news stories conveniently skipped over this question. One person who might know is the guy who cooked it up in the first place. Zee developed 3-MMC and dozens of other similar designer drugs for a company based in Israel, and says he always tests his inventions on himself before they go into distribution. That being said, Dr. Zee acknowledges that some people have a hard time controlling their 3-MMC use. Dopamine is a feel-good neurotransmitter, produced by our own brain. Zee says there is a safe way to enjoy it. Kaj Hollemans , who specialises in legal advice used to inform national policies on drugs, alcohol and gambling, believes media reports have not only overblown the issue of 3-MMC, but probably inflamed it. Journalists, police officers and mayors are scrambling to inform young people about the dangers of the drug, but Kaj thinks the warnings could be having the opposite effect. After some further explanation about the angle of this piece, Jeannette expresses relief. She says several journalists have recently reached out about 3-MMC with the same set of questions, focusing on how awful the drug is. Though there are definitely users who have issues with 3-MMC, they usually also take more popular hard drugs, such as cocaine and speed. Plus, there are no reliable estimates available on the amount of people using it. But where have we created space in our society to do that in a safe way? Schools often focus solely on studying and getting a degree. As a result, young people end up experimenting in private. Increasingly bored during lockdown, she started looking for something new, and took 3-MMC for the first time in October of after hearing about it on the news. They see prohibition as the only answer. Meanwhile, Dr. He defends its right to exist legally, despite acknowledging the risks of overuse. By Aleksandra Bliszczyk. By Adele Luamanuvae. By Nick Thompson. Share: X Facebook Share Copied to clipboard. Videos by VICE. Read Next.

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Arnhem buying Ecstasy

On the other side of the 14 th century Oudezijds Achterburgwal canal, a cluster of partying men yodel back. This is not the Night Watch memorialised by Rembrandt in , the civic militia that would defend the city of Amsterdam from outside attack. Now the enemy is within, in the area named for the old city walls, but now infamous as the red-light district of Amsterdam. Els Iping and her neighbour Romeo are pacing the streets. Why have the people of Amsterdam been forced to take public order into their own hands again? But morality aside, it is also a question of numbers: with thousands packing out the roads and streets on weekend nights, it is sometimes impossible for even emergency vehicles to access the area. And Els and Romeo are not alone in believing all this has been facilitated by the legal grey area of state policy on soft drugs. Romeo, who has lived for six years at the heart of all this, says that when he leaves for his morning work at 4am, there are frequently still groups of screaming tourists. Some may be set up by upright businessmen; some, says the mayor of Amsterdam , are part of criminal networks. The prostitution windows where sometimes-trafficked foreign women show off their cosmetically enhanced wares, the raucous bars, the coffeeshops where cannabis is sold and smoked, feel like an invasion: not a liberal paradise, but a human zoo from another age. However, since commercial cannabis growing is illegal, they have to buy from criminals. By Senay Boztas. Mayor Femke Halsema, the deputy mayors and heads of the local police and public prosecution are convinced that the situation is untenable. Halsema believes that full legalisation and regulation of cannabis — and also cocaine — is the answer. In the meantime, she wants to enforce an existing national law to ban tourists from coffeeshops in order to shrink the sector. A majority of city councillors, concerned about more vulnerable young men being sucked into dealing to meet tourist demand and a consequent explosion in street crime, voted against her proposal this month. Diederik Boomsma, councillor and head of the local Christian Democratic Appeal party, is one strong advocate of banning tourists from coffeeshops and is raising awareness about the dangers of drug use. Why would you do something that funds violent criminals? Peter R de Vries was murdered right in front of my house. He is referring to the murder of a Dutch journalist who had been advising the crown witness against an alleged drug cartel — a killing which shocked the country into paying attention to its drugs problem. Threats that the Telegraaf newspaper suggests come from the quarter of organised crime have recently even been aimed at Dutch Princess Amalia and Prime Minister Mark Rutte. And four suspects were arrested in and around The Hague on suspicion of preparing to kidnap Belgian justice minister Vincent van Quickenborne, after Dutch drug gang violence spilled over into Antwerp this summer. By Leighton Woodhouse. One point of view is that weed and soft drugs are another sector, another branch, with hard-working entrepreneurs and nothing wrong. You need to look at this very carefully. Meanwhile, others countries are experimenting with more permissive approaches to cannabis. Uruguay made the drug legal in , followed by Canada, Mexico and some US states. Medical usage was legalised in Portugal in and Thailand is turning a blind eye, to stimulate tourism. Boomsma has proposed a ban on weed smoking in public in the centre of Amsterdam, and believes his motion will get a council majority this year. In the meantime, the situation in De Wallen — even compared with the bad old days of heroin addicts on the streets — is relentless for local people like Els and Romeo. While some political parties are focused on the problems of vulnerable districts on the outskirts, Els and Romeo point out that it is madness to make any part of the city essentially unliveable at a time of desperate housing need. Even some of the tourists seem blown away by it all. The Netherlands needs more than a shower of liberal platitudes to clean up De Wallen. It needs clear drugs policy, a flashlight on criminal constructions and a power hose. It comes as a surprise to the Neo-Liberals that creating a Sodom and Gomorrah in your city has down sides. Naturally they think more regulating, more money thrown at it……. But the thing is the real harm is not the anti-social stuff you see; it is the moral decay of everyone who becomes normalized to this degeneracy of prostitution and drugs and organized crime. It would cost Amsterdam millions in tourism to ban foreigners from the coffee shops, however it surprises me the Dutch have never actually bothered to regulate it rather than leaving the whole thing in the control of the underworld. No, but I think there are powerful vested interests that prefer the laws to be grey rather than black and white. Geofence dog containment collar is the best way to keep your buddy safe in the yard. Much worse affects than cannabis in any town centre. The duties on alcohol raise billions of dollars annually. Why do you only mention cannabis? There is a great range of associated drugs, and a great range of other drugs. It remains illegal in a few countries the cultures of which turned against it. Does its illegality or discouragement in such places create the same massive problems of addiction and extreme violent crime? What a lazy idea it was to think that everything would work out through a tolerant point of view. Indeed — Either fully criminalise or fully legalise. Time to move the other way. Think of the tax revenue that could be raised from legal recreational drugs. So Holland has had 60 years to fix these problems, has not, and this is the fault of weed shops? Spare me. Who is to blame for the stupidity of allowing cannabis to be sold in shops, but not legally produced, or taxed? Call them out. No mention of alcohol as a problem. Has the author not noticed that similar rowdiness is common in many hot capitals in Europe, or that alcohol makes meek people rowdy, whilst cannabis makes rowdy people meek? She also failed to see the chasm between the worlds of cocaine, heroin, and to a lesser extent MDMA — fantastic profits, and therefore terrifying violence and disruption, and cannabis. She would better spend her reading hours on informed writers, Roberto Saviano for example, rather than the egregious Peter Hitchins. Anyone who believes that the popularization of the use of profoundly powerful mood modifying agents, not excluding marijuana, has had anything other than utterly ruinous effects on once well ordered Western societies is perceiving reality through eyes of the sort that were characterized by William Blake:. Western societies have been getting drunk for centuries, and have had opium dens and cocaine in the not too distant past. None of which proved to be utterly ruinous for society as a whole, even if it did get the better of some individuals. Read up on how safe Amsterdam is at night and in the Red Light District, plus if there are any areas to avoid as a newcomer. Is Amsterdam safe to travel? Yes, Amsterdam is a safe city to visit. In the last Safe City Index , Amsterdam ranked fourth position in the list of safest cities in the world. Though you can buy marihuana freely in coffee shops, smart drugs in smart shops and prostitution is legal, Amsterdam is not a dangerous city. The city does especially well in regards to traffic. Because everyone travels by bike there are not many traffic accidents and the air in Amsterdam is not very polluted. For crime, Amsterdam is also safe. The risk of violent assault in Amsterdam is pretty much absent, in all parts of the city. Also, crime rates in general in Amsterdam are going down every year. Looks like unherd is riddled with it too. I do not doubt that your source material is correct and this article too. The type of crime that is described in the article is quite different to the type of crime you indicate is absent. It is the creeping invidousness of crime into all levels of public life that is so damaging and of course the more general unruliness and anti social behaviour may not be violent in the way you describe but it is clearly not welcome to those that live in the city and reduces their sense of well being and security. It seems odd that they would have the burden of the industry without the benefit of regulating and taxing the production of marijuana. Particularly since they are famous for their agricultural sector it would seem logical to produce it locally and legally. The legalization of cannabis in Canada has been pretty drama free. What have libertine values gotten Amsterdam with free-wheeling sex and drugs? Nothing but misery and heartache and no one will admit it for fear of looking like a moralistic puritan. If you want degenerate and degrading behavior to run rampant in your city, then why even stop at legalized drugs and prostitution? You think somehow that junkies and sex addicts will stay in their cloistered places? Legalising the growing of cannabis, limiting the number of outlets that can sell it, and banning cannabis consumption in public seems a useful way forward. Places where people smoke it should be out of the way and anti-social behaviour put down forcefully. Drugs have a terrible impact on society, but I am not sure that legally prohibiting the alteration of consciousness is the best way to go. There is something serendiptitous about this. Why cannot Singapore liberalise? I was in Singapore for the weekend as they opened up a festival which celebrated all things French and paid tribute to such French attributes as the tour de france with an all day rally and Jazz at the outdoor arena in the Botanical Gardens. A celebration of skills and craft which was carried out in such away all age groups and familes could participate. This study of Amsterdam puts paid to the idea that these things happen in a modular contained fashion they do not. I should say the atmosphere in Singapore was up beat and full of natural vigour and human activity fuelled by nothing more than natural enthusiasm. This writer is biased against weed. She probably belongs to one of the Christian Parties which whine to no end about weed — but fail to admonish alcohol driven violence! What was you expecting to find in Europes most famous red light district out of interest? Going there and complaining about the clientele and lack of high end restaurants is akin to going to an Stonehenge and moaning that all you saw was some old stones. I visited and found it quite the opposite, we had a lovely time eating cake and laughing our heads off with all the tables around and people from all over the world. We went up an old working windmill which was awesome, the Amsterdam maritime museum was stunning, as was the Rijksmuseum, the canals and multitude of boats are a sight to see in themselves, the bakeries were next level. Then round other parts to arnhem to see the monster truck world finals — awesome, architecture in rotterdam is insane in places. For any ww2 or urbexing nuts out there I would fully recommend ijmuiden. Sorry, I meant to reply to nicky, get your point there entirely! I pity the fool that managed to find Amsterdam boring! Also agree people are lovely, my cousins married to a Dutch lady, he moved there years ago for work. What a dishonest piece of crap article. A pseudo-mix of reporting on organized mafia and pretending that in order to curtain organized crime it is needed to bow to the knees of arrogant liberal gentrifiers. Not every street in the world as to be a santized suburbia, and the Red Light district is bringing a lot of appeal, culture, toursists and economic activity to the Netherlands, as well as a pleasant relief for travelling brittons. Lots of people will be happy with getting cheap housing downotown Amsterdam in a district with specific nuisances, and accept ht this district might be noisy or require more policing than other areas. I think those people are despicable scum, that they impose large costs on society by confiscating downtown areas that have the most proximity to landmark site, transport nodes and activity centers and privatize those districts for residential bourgeois villages. The downtown areas of big cities should have urban plannig that serves the whole country, not NIMBY gentrifiers.. Yes, what a pleasant relief it is to promote the trafficking and sexual exploitation and occasional murder of women only women though so not important , and the availability of a drug known to have a high risk of causing paranoid, aggressive behaviour and episodic psychosis in its users literally the first dopehead I ever met in was a paranoid, potentially violent, actually threatening i. As one commenter notes: alcohol makes meek people rowdy, whilst cannabis makes rowdy people meek I would suggest that it is the over-indulgence in alcohol that promotes unruly behavior. Perhaps simply moving the pubs out of the red light district would severely reduce the commotion. Alcohol deaths yearly — 3. By any who are prepared to acknowledge the actualities of the matter, exposure to marijuana, particularly but not exclusively as it is in its contemporary, highly hybridized, incarnations, is understood to have readily identifiable schizophrenigenic and psychotomimetic effects. For verification of that contention, one need only consult relevant medical literature:. The marijuana being sold today is nothing at all like that of the seventies. And this was days after his most recent contact with the drug. He stopped smoking the dope and there has been no recurrence. Thanks for the replies. I am fully aware that THC levels have gone up 2 or 3 fold; and nowhere did I claim that MJ is harmless — most things, drugs, activities, ideas, are a mix of harmful, innocuous, beneficial. You have to look at the overall profile to ascertain what we should do about them. In these terms, MJ is one of the safest drugs around, and has many beneficial effects. At least three factors are also relevant: 1 prohibition is the driver and the maintainer of the THC increase. Inexperienced people lack the knowledge of responsible use — simply banning it all is a really half-arsed answer. With tobacco and alcohol, govt uses the huge tax incomes to fund educational and health interventions 3 MJ use has been found to lead to substantial decreases in alcohol use booze is, by far and away more lethal, harmful to body and mind, causes more dangerous and violent behaviour 4 The link between psychosis and MJ is not clear — though it can certainly cause paranoia and anxiety, this soon wears off, though if you have a underlying issue, the problems may be longer -term. There is a huge self-selection bias — people with MH problems often use MJ, as it has therapeutic effects alongside the negative. The police know this, the courts know this, Doctors know this, users know this. It only remains controversial in politics. I agree with you on this, bit of info for others: Steph and dom from gogglebox trying to get medicinal mj for epileptic son was broadcast on c4 so should be on 4od based on others very positive experience, well worth a watch for any doubters of the benefits of medicinal mj, and the resistance of big pharma to it. Takes all the profit out. I linked you prof. David nutt above too, he backs up much of what you say. Have to say I think this article is pants compared to my own experience. We have a camper travelled all round the Netherlands, honestly one of the nicest, cleanest, countries to tour. In , researchers in the Netherlands secured samples of the marijuana that was then being purveyed in Dutch coffeehouses. The ruinously deleterious effects of marijuana exposure, on the individual and society, remain obscure only to those who refuse to associate that which is associable and to correlate that which is correlative. In countries that have properly legalised it — ie not Holland — these factors are on the packaging, as with spirits, wine, beer. Hard to get and very few people want it. I know how it has typically changed — about twice as strong now, and I simply use half as much. Physiologically and medically not possible. You have something else causing your problem s. Post even one published medical paper to prove your statement. The pair went on the tour, which was filmed for a Channel 4 documentary, as part of a campaign started after the murder of five sex workers in Ipswich in Steve Wright, of Ipswich, is now serving life in prison. Mrs Johnson proposed to her local WI the organisation lobby for brothels to be legalised. She was greeted with gasps but argues it is in the tradition of WI campaigns…. While the deaths and fighting may be lower, the surge in mental health and respiratory illnesses would more than compensate. November Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack when the overall dangers to the individual and society are considered, according to a study in the Lancet. The report is co-authored by Professor David Nutt, the former government chief drugs adviser who was sacked in Heroin, crack and crystal meth were deemed worst for individuals, with alcohol, heroin and crack cocaine worst for society, and alcohol worst overall. The study by the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs also said tobacco and cocaine were judged to be equally harmful, while ecstasy and LSD were among the least damaging. If there were as many heroin users as there is drinkers society would fall apart at the seams. But the study was done for the government to advise them on drug classification policy:. So heroin and crack are still charted right at the top 3. Sorry Billy — I like and appreciate your comments in particular- but you are very wrong on this. Pointing out the blinding hypocrisy between accepting alcohol and freaking out about MJ is one way I react. Beyond a shadow of a doubt booze is more harmful — a figure of x so often gets bandied about — rough guesstimate for sure, but about right. My opinion is based on nothing but my own observations, but all the boys I know who smoke it regularly are definitely slower than the drinkers. Search for:. The drug trade has wrecked Amsterdam Soft policies caused disorder and violent crime. Senay Boztas October 24, 6 mins. Senay Boztas is a journalist living in Amsterdam. Join the discussion Join like minded readers that support our journalism by becoming a paid subscriber. To join the discussion in the comments, become a paid subscriber. Join like minded readers that support our journalism, read unlimited articles and enjoy other subscriber-only benefits. Notify of. Most Voted Newest Oldest. Inline Feedbacks. Aaron James. Naturally they think more regulating, more money thrown at it…… But the thing is the real harm is not the anti-social stuff you see; it is the moral decay of everyone who becomes normalized to this degeneracy of prostitution and drugs and organized crime. Billy Bob. Reply to Aaron James. Julian Farrows. Reply to Billy Bob. Liam Brady. Reply to Liam Brady. Colin Elliott. Brett H. Dominic A. Reply to Brett H. A laziness outmatched by the idea that the war on drugs works. Ibn Sina. Reply to Dominic A. Reply to Ibn Sina. Last edited 1 year ago by Colin Elliott. Ethniciodo Rodenydo. Mike Michaels. Reply to Ethniciodo Rodenydo. Nathan Hale. Reply to Nathan Hale. B Emery. Reply to B Emery. Michelle Johnston. Last edited 1 year ago by Michelle Johnston. Peter Johnson. Methadras Aszlosis. Adam McDermont. Kevin L. Nicky Samengo-Turner. Reply to Nicky Samengo-Turner. Arnold Grutt. Terry M. Reply to Arnold Grutt. No counterpoints, just downticks — the sign of the herd. Last edited 1 year ago by Nathan Hale. Jeff Cunningham. Carl Valentine. Reply to Carl Valentine. THC levels have been increased 2 -3 fold? Anyhow, what is your point? It has increased in strength so……..? Remember professor David nutt!? It ranked 20 drugs on 16 measures of harm to users and to wider society. Report this comment. This comment is spam This comment should be marked mature This comment is abusive This comment promotes self-harm Other.

Arnhem buying Ecstasy