“Now, in the Netherlands, perhaps the most liberal European country, the government is now shutting down pot shops and legalized brothels. Apparently, organized crime is controlling both over there.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,464426,00.html
Thereby guaranteeing that organized crime will have even more control and more access to the profits.
Well, nobody said Euros were smart when it comes to the concept of Freedom.
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If the pot shops are being run by criminals, solve the problem by selling the stuff at Walmart. If people want to use drugs, they should be able to grow them in their gardens. Much of it is just plant extracts anyway. The government didn’t do anything about it for 150 years, and this country was just fine.
There were 26 murders in Amsterdam in 2007 according to: www.expatica.com/nl/articles/news/Record-low-murder-rate-once-again.html
With a population of about 730,000, that works out to a murder rate of about 3.6/100,000.
San Jose has been ranked among the safest cities in the US over 500,000. According to city-data.com, the murder rate for 2007 was 3.5/100,000.
I was with my family in Amsterdam a few months ago and it all seemed quite safe, safer than any city I have been to in the U.S.
Almost no violent crime and the worst property crime are bicycle thefts and a burglary here and there. Not like America.