Dutch Usage Rates
24th Nov 2008: "...According to data compiled by the
Netherlands' Trimbos Institute for Mental Health and Addiction, after 30 years of the Dutch
tolerance policy, usage rates in the country are somewhere in the middle of international norms -
above those in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, but below those of France, Britain and
the United States." more...
Ports wide open to drugs
5th June 2005: "Drugs worth more than $1 billion have been
seized
from shipping containers since late 2002 even though customs inspected only a tiny fraction of
the
3 million containers that arrive in Australia each year....seizures could be just the tip of an
iceberg centred around drug trafficking networks able to avoid detection because of limited
searches or rorting of the importation system." more...