Prohibitionist UK -- Not
Holland -- Leads Europe In Illegal Drug Production.
But This Does Not Fit the Prohibitionist Party Line
(Marijuananews note: Although the Drug Czar
recently told a House committee, "Dutch tolerance of drug use has created a climate
that drug manufacturers and traffickers have seized upon to produce and market more
addictive and dangerous drugs." See
The Drug Czars
Testimony On "The Drug Legalization Movement In America" Has Three Parts:
Lie About The Anti-Prohibitionist Movement; Lie About Marijuana; Lie About The
Netherlands.
With A Little Lying About Me.
He cited as his source the recent anti-Dutch prohibitionist
propaganda published by Foreign Affairs.
See
Foreign
Affairs Pushes The Party Line At the Highest Levels:
Anti-Dutch Prohibitionist Propaganda for the Elites.
April's Reefer Madness Award Winner
The point of all this is to blame Dutch marijuana policies for
somehow fostering the manufacture of other illicit drugs, which are then exported to other
European countries, and even to DEAland. Insofar as the Netherlands really is home to such
manufacturing, it has nothing to do with marijuana policies, but that is irrelevant to the
Czar who seems to have a compulsion to lie about Holland. Perhaps he simply has no choice,
the truth not being an option for someone in his position.
Notice also that Belgium, which has only recently decriminalized
marijuana, and has no marijuana coffee shops, is also listed as a major manufacturing
center. That also does not fit the party line.
Although there is no mention of marijuana in this article, the UK
has a higher rate of marijuana use -- and other drug use than does Holland.)
See
Drug Czar
Lies Again About the Dutch, Who Respond With The Facts;
Czars Aid Says, "forces at work to legalize drugs are trying to bring
these wonderfully allied governments into conflict."
BRITAIN LEADS EUROPE IN PRODUCING ILLEGAL DRUGS
June 20, 1999
From The Independent on Sunday
letters@independent.co.uk
http://www.independent.co.uk/sindy/sindy.html
By Sophie Goodchild
Britain is emerging as the drugs production capital of Europe.
For years it has led the way in the consumption of ecstasy, while Holland
and Belgium have been the "market leaders" in its manufacture. But now
criminal gangs have realised massive profits can be made from the manufacture and export
of "synthetic" narcotics.
Drugs officers working for the National Criminal Intelligence Service have found
evidence that "synthetics" - chemically manufactured drugs - are being transported from Britain to the US, a trade traditionally dominated by
Dutch and Belgian dealers.
New figures from US customs officials show that over the past year seizures of ecstasy
have risen from 400,000 tablets to nearly four million - one quarter
of them made in Britain. Ecstasy is relatively new to the US, as is the
"rave" culture with which it is associated. And the internet has provided
criminals with guides to its manufacture.
The NCIS fears a significant increase in the market for synthetics, with the appearance
of entirely new drugs. For example, anti-shyness drugs, which are being developed
legitimately by pharmaceutical companies, are expected to be copied for the illegal
market. Viagra is already being produced by British gangs.
Dealers can expect to make up to pounds 20 for a dose of ecstasy and pounds 15 a gram
for amphetamines.
(Marijuananews note: The pound is around $1.65US)
Industrial estates, isolated farmhouses and even boats have provided bases for illegal
drug manufacturing. Last year, police raided a drugs factory on a farm in Norfolk which
had the capacity to produce pounds 15m of amphetamine a week - pounds 780m over a year.
Les Fiander, a member of the drugs unit at the NCIS, which is instrumental in helping
police to raid drug factories in the UK at the rate of one a month, said: "We are picking up intelligence that there is a lot more interest
from criminal gangs to manufacture drugs over here.
"They are bringing in chemicals from Eastern Europe
where there is a lot of
corruption in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Drugs such as ecstasy and LSD
are wrongly perceived as safer drugs to take, which is part of their
popularity and the profits for the dealers can be enormous."
Earlier this month, a member of a drugs gang was jailed for 12 years after police
uncovered pounds 29m of ecstasy and amphetamines in his car. The drugs, found with David
Annesley, who was planning to distribute them in Liverpool, is one of the largest seizures
made in Britain.
The drugs were discovered in five holdalls, illustrating how easy they are to smuggle,
according to Pat Jones, a spokesman for US customs. "You can store an awful lot in a
small container," he said. "A cigar box can hold a couple of thousand ecstasy
tablets, for example. If you stick that in your luggage it can be very hard to
detect."