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1. mschuster91 ◴[] No.42474295[source]
"surprising experts", LOL

It was clear ever back when the Dutch decriminalised weed that its normalisation led to youth not being that much interested any more, and so it was everywhere else where weed was legalised decades later.

But hey, just because the Dutch have had decades of experience, the rest of the world still isn't able to learn from them.

It's time to end the war on drugs, once and for all. And DARE etc can go and die in a hellfire where it belongs.

> The initial drop in drug use between 2020 and 2021 was among the largest ever recorded.

No surprise, with the world in lockdown and most schools in lockdown it was harder to get drugs, and meeting up to consume drugs could in many countries lead to a knock on the door or even a raid from the police - it happened quite the surprising amount of times in Germany.

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2. pkaye ◴[] No.42474836[source]
They only legalized it recently though.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/legal-weed-netherlands/

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3. mschuster91 ◴[] No.42475027[source]
Yeah, it was decriminalized... but that wasn't my point. The point is, police didn't care, and it wasn't interesting for young people because of that.
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4. earnestinger ◴[] No.42478154{3}[source]
Legalisation/decriminalisation was only one part of the strategy.

Real problem they had was heroin. So they made heroin(or some replacement) free, pushing out drug dealers from the market. Importantly: providing other help to addicts, so they could/would be part of society.

https://youtu.be/6OYLoPvLzPo?feature=shared (1h video comparing situation in US, Portugal, Netherlands; Netherlands part starts around 27:00)