UK, Ireland /
Poles in Ireland, are they second class citizens? [90]
Ah yeah, but you know, every country has it's beautiful spots, that's not really a unique feature of the Netherlands, however, the Red Light District basically makes prostitution a business like any other business as well as the coffee shops do for soft-drugs and that truly is a unique feature of the country. Where in other countries these things are part of a shady subculture where ppl usually move around in the dark not to be detected by police or moral forces, we just put it out in the open, therefore making it more and better controllable, which in turn leads to less problems related to both. However, do not make that common mistake loads of ppl do and assume that soft-drugs are legal in Holland. They are not, officicially. They are condoned in order to give the police more time and space to focus on the real culprits: hard-drugs like cocaine, heroin and so on and the pushers of soft- and hard-drugs. But if you get caught with more than a certain amount of, say, haschies, you will go to jail, just like any other country. We have the best drugspolicy and the least drugrelated issues in the world. The control-bit of this whole thing is that we are a well-organized country and we like to put everything in strict cadres. Sometimes this country is over-organized.
M-G
