No coincidence? 
For many years Holland has led the field in understanding and dealing with drugs and drug culture, and according to Prof. Tim Boekhout van Solinge, "‘It is no coincidence"

The UN wants to propagate the idea that things are getting out of hand here but in truth, this idea is wrong.

"Drug user figures in Holland compare favourably with the rest of Europe and in many cases Holland leads the way, proving a liberal attitude to drug use, as well as to the drug users themselves, can bring positive results in the grand scale of things.

But regardless of the success enjoyed by the Dutch administration, the United Nations has "spun" the facts to show Holland has the highest "per capita" drug addict head count in Europe, when in reality, the Dutch have the lowest.

How did the UN manage it?

At the time, (back in 2000), the European Union consisted of 15 member states.

But by changing the way data was collected from Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg, the United Nations essentially created a single country, called Benelux, and added the totals from all three countries together.

Adding the country with the highest drug addict count, (Luxembourg), to the figures of the country with the lowest amount of drug addicts.

Which is Holland, perhaps 'unsurprisingly' enough.

"The UN had reduced the list of 15 to 13 countries by counting the Benelux as one country," continues Prof. Boekhout van Solinge.

"These numbers were not properly linked to total population estimates. But instead, averages were calculated," and that’s how the Benelux ended on top of the list of drug addicted countries."

"The message for the public was clear: Dutch drug policy is not working."

Membership of the United Nations is subject to some stiff criteria which must be met regarding internal drug policies, and the UN have long been outspoken supporters of the war on drugs, and regardless of the scientific evidence which proves once and for all, prohibition, is not a strategy on which a successful drug prolicy can be built.

"Experts have been clamouring for years that this battle can never be won", says Boekhout van Solinge. "Things are just getting worse", and a spokesman for pro-cannabis reform website the 'Canna Zine' said, "Things are just getting worse."

"While the police chase their collective tails closing cannabis farms, a tide of heroin and opium is washing over, and killing our children. "The prescription drugs epidemic hasn't even reached us yet, but it will".

"Whilst the powers that be procrastinate in making some big decisions, Welsh drug charities are treating children as young as 13 years of age for heroin addiction."

"And all the while we have 'front line' troops such as Chief Constables, Doctors, Toxicologists, Lawyers, Judges etc, calling for the decriminalization and regulation of drugs."

"At a time when the United Kingdom is suffering an illicit drug crisis, we could really do with a show of leadership, right? And if our current administration are not up to the task, perhaps its time for a new government to take over?"

A government which is not afraid to do whats right for its people, and regardless of how the United Nations attempts to coerce them 'otherwise'.

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