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Re:Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners by zyx321 on Thursday November 10, 2016 @07:20AM (#12919775)
All those measures will take a long time to take effect. You can't expect culture to change over night.

Luckily if you want results NOW, all you gotta do is outlaw marijuana. Nothing fills prisons like a War on Drugs.

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Re:Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners by micfar on Thursday November 10, 2016 @07:47AM (#12919916)
Cannabis is technically a white-listed illegal substance, for which the possession, consumption, and sale is legal up to certain thresholds. Amusingly, the sellers require a license and are not supposed to purchase stock to sell. Viz. The cannabis being sold is appearing out of thin air!
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Re:Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners by dtech on Thursday November 10, 2016 @08:42AM (#12920249)
> Amusingly, the sellers require a license and are not supposed to purchase stock to sell.

Correct, it's a schizophrenic situation that pro-legalization and liberal parties have been trying to solve for a while.

However, since 2002 more conservative, christian and/or centre-right parties have been ruling who ideally want to criminalize again so it's not getting solved any time soon.

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