Amsterdam Mayor Advocates Cocaine Legalization To Curb Organized Crime: ‘People Have A Need For Stimulants, There Is A Market For That’
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema recently called for the legalization and regulation of cocaine.
“We have handed the market to unscrupulous criminals,” Halsema said, according to High Times, citing an interview with the Dutch newspaper Financieele Dagblad. “They earn billions. And in the meantime, the war on drugs is disrupting entire countries, causing countless victims and strengthening the criminal business model.”
Halsema believes that decriminalizing and legalizing cocaine sales would diminish illegal operations run by organized crime group, plus would offer safer and controlled drugs to those who use it anyway.
“Let us conclude that hundreds of years of discouragement and repression have achieved very little,” Halsema told the outlet, “Apparently people have a need for stimulants. There is a market for that.”
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