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UvA doctoral candidate: Tolerance not the driver of Dutch drug policy
22 April 2024 - 16:59
Dutch drug policy does not stem from a tolerant ideology, but rather from measures to combat drug-related disturbances. This is what UvA historian Arjan Nuijten demonstrates in his dissertation on drug policy in Amsterdam, Arnhem, and Heerlen. “Methadone dispensing was only instituted when her...