08-31-2019, 03:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-31-2019, 03:57 PM by Firestarter.)
Drugs in Amsterdam
This month, my home town of Amsterdam, released a report on the problems of drugs addicts and criminality in Amsterdam.
Strangely missing from the report is that before the Happy Family coffeeshops of Steve Brown were subisidised by the municipality of Amsterdam, there were only 2 coffeeshops in the whole city (one of which is The Bulldog).
Also MIA is information on the IRT affair in which the Dutch government actively participated in the “controlled” import of large amounts of drugs.
This “official” study was done by professor Pieter Tops and dumb, deaf and blind journalist Jan Tromp: https://nltimes.nl/2019/08/28/amsterdam-...ime-report
In 2019, there are 167 coffeeshops (that are allowed to sell “soft drugs”, hashish and cannabis) in Amsterdam.
According to the tax authorities, the smaller coffeeshops have a total yearly turnover of 150 million. This doesn’t include the big coffeeshops (like The Bulldog?).
The coffeeshops in the Amsterdam city centre have an average amount of clients of 6000 per week. If they spend a mere 10 Euro p.p. the annual turnover would already be 300 million Euro.
It’s safe to estimate that all the 167 coffeeshops together have an annual turnover of more than 1 billion.
From 2008 to 2016, the percentage of adult people living in Amsterdam that used “soft drugs” in the last year, rose from 17% to 21%.
11% of the adults in Amsterdam in 2016 had used cannabis less than a month ago, some 60,000 people.
From 2008 to 2016, the percentage of adult people living in Amsterdam that used “hard drugs” in the last year, rose from 10% to 17%.
8% of the adults in Amsterdam in 2016 had used “hard drugs” less than a month ago, some 41,000 people. This percentage was only 4% in 2012 (so about doubled in only 4 years).
The most used hard drugs are XTC, cocaine and amphetamines (this doesn’t include “legal” hard drugs, like Ritalin).
In 2016, of the interviewed 5th and 6th graders at high school (about 15 to 19 years of age) in Amsterdam; 15% said they had used XTC at least once and 4% in the last month.
In 1996, Fijnaut en Bovenkerk reported that Amsterdam is an important centre of organised crime (they weren’t talking about the Dutch central bank DNB or the other money laundering banks headquartered in Amsterdam!). The biggest criminal sector is related to drugs.
Since then nothing has been done to end this.
Besides Dutch criminals, Colombians, Chinese and Turkish groups reportedly did most of the drugs trafficking in 1996.
In 2019, there are relatively less Chinese drugs criminals, but more Moroccans, Carribeans and Albanians.
Rotterdam and Antwerp (Belgium) are more used to import drugs than Amsterdam.
According to the cops, some of the cocaine cartels own hundreds of millions of Euros, while the largest drug barons are even billionaires.
Amsterdam is an important European centre for the sale of cocaine, reportedly 75 million euros worth of it is used in Amsterdam per year.
Some 30% of the nightlife crowds recently used cocaine.
An experienced cop gave the following opinion (of course he´s wrong to ignore the VOC and VWC headquartered in Amsterdam selling opium and slaves from the 17th century on):
This month, my home town of Amsterdam, released a report on the problems of drugs addicts and criminality in Amsterdam.
Strangely missing from the report is that before the Happy Family coffeeshops of Steve Brown were subisidised by the municipality of Amsterdam, there were only 2 coffeeshops in the whole city (one of which is The Bulldog).
Also MIA is information on the IRT affair in which the Dutch government actively participated in the “controlled” import of large amounts of drugs.
This “official” study was done by professor Pieter Tops and dumb, deaf and blind journalist Jan Tromp: https://nltimes.nl/2019/08/28/amsterdam-...ime-report
In 2019, there are 167 coffeeshops (that are allowed to sell “soft drugs”, hashish and cannabis) in Amsterdam.
According to the tax authorities, the smaller coffeeshops have a total yearly turnover of 150 million. This doesn’t include the big coffeeshops (like The Bulldog?).
The coffeeshops in the Amsterdam city centre have an average amount of clients of 6000 per week. If they spend a mere 10 Euro p.p. the annual turnover would already be 300 million Euro.
It’s safe to estimate that all the 167 coffeeshops together have an annual turnover of more than 1 billion.
From 2008 to 2016, the percentage of adult people living in Amsterdam that used “soft drugs” in the last year, rose from 17% to 21%.
11% of the adults in Amsterdam in 2016 had used cannabis less than a month ago, some 60,000 people.
From 2008 to 2016, the percentage of adult people living in Amsterdam that used “hard drugs” in the last year, rose from 10% to 17%.
8% of the adults in Amsterdam in 2016 had used “hard drugs” less than a month ago, some 41,000 people. This percentage was only 4% in 2012 (so about doubled in only 4 years).
The most used hard drugs are XTC, cocaine and amphetamines (this doesn’t include “legal” hard drugs, like Ritalin).
In 2016, of the interviewed 5th and 6th graders at high school (about 15 to 19 years of age) in Amsterdam; 15% said they had used XTC at least once and 4% in the last month.
In 1996, Fijnaut en Bovenkerk reported that Amsterdam is an important centre of organised crime (they weren’t talking about the Dutch central bank DNB or the other money laundering banks headquartered in Amsterdam!). The biggest criminal sector is related to drugs.
Since then nothing has been done to end this.
Besides Dutch criminals, Colombians, Chinese and Turkish groups reportedly did most of the drugs trafficking in 1996.
In 2019, there are relatively less Chinese drugs criminals, but more Moroccans, Carribeans and Albanians.
Rotterdam and Antwerp (Belgium) are more used to import drugs than Amsterdam.
According to the cops, some of the cocaine cartels own hundreds of millions of Euros, while the largest drug barons are even billionaires.
Amsterdam is an important European centre for the sale of cocaine, reportedly 75 million euros worth of it is used in Amsterdam per year.
Some 30% of the nightlife crowds recently used cocaine.
An experienced cop gave the following opinion (of course he´s wrong to ignore the VOC and VWC headquartered in Amsterdam selling opium and slaves from the 17th century on):
Quote:What we did in the past with cinnamon and spices, we now do with drugs. It is good commercial spirit.(in Dutch): https://www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/Upload...terdam.pdf
We see cocaine boys operating at junctions. They speak 4 or 5 languages – Spanish, Dutch, English, Portuguese. They are good at communication. They aren´t stupid.
When you have an empire of billions, you must be capable of multitasking and making fast decisions. I think that they could handle to be the CEO of a large corporation.
The Order of the Garter rules the world: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...5549#p5549