The Fight Is Pointless

Dutch police union chair: legalise cannabis

Published: Wednesday 23 April 2008 08:32 UTC
Last updated: Wednesday 23 April 2008 12:59 UTC

Amsterdam – The chairman of the Dutch police union NPB Hans van Duijn says it is pointless to fight against the supply of cannabis. He thinks it only leads to more crime and he would much rather see soft drugs legalised in The Netherlands. Further, Hans van Duijn is in favour of letting long time addicts use hard drugs under supervision. In his opinion this is the only way to effectively fight drug related crime.

Drug crimes take up a great deal of the police’s time and energy and other crime issues suffer from it, says the retiring NPB chairman. He thinks most senior police officers feel the same way.
According to Hans van Duijn, Dutch politicians are reluctant to look at the possibilities of legalising soft drugs. Under international pressure they prefer to put their heads in the sand, says Mr Van Duijn.

Now ask yourself just “who” this “international pressure” might be from. I have spoken to several police officers (a few fairly close friends from high school who are now quite high up) and by and large, this is true (however, they cannot openly admit it for fear of losing funding and having the administration attack them as unAmerican or unserious in their job).

The population, in general, has no idea about this drug and its benefits. All they know is what the government tells them. But it doesn’t take a genius to figure it out, IF you will ONLY stop listening to the same ones who have been lying to you for your entire lives.