[TKDietz]

"Amsterdam tried liberal drug zones and they quickly found they needed to be more tightly controlled and regulated."

Holland still has "coffeeshops" where people can go to buy a wide selection of hash and marijuana. They did tweak the laws a little since these places opened in the 1970's, but anyone who wants to can still walk into these places and select from an extensive menu of marijuana products. The product is openly displayed and some of the places even have big neon marijuana leaves decorating the fronts of the businesses. The latest proposed change supported by the majority of the politicians there is to make growing marijuana to supply the coffeeshops legal. Up till now the shops have been largely supplied by organized crime because technically it was illegal to grow, import, or sell large amounts of marijuana, even though selling small amounts from coffeeshops was allowed. In order to cut organized crime out of the picture, now they want to let coffeeshops, and others with permission, to grow enough locally to supply all the shops. The Dutch are nowhere close to closing their coffeeshops. In fact, they'll probably end up making it easier for them to operate and reduce the costs in bringing their products to market.

[twas]

I never said the Dutch were going to close their "coffee shops".

Your post does however verify what I have been saying; that the Amsterdam drug trade is highly regulated and restricted. No one can not point to Amsterdam as a model of free drug use. It is anything but.