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The Netherlands vs. the United States
DRUG WAR FACTS
compiled by Kendra E. Wright and Paul M. Lewin
for Common Sense for Drug Policy, http://www.csdp.org/
Updated: August 15, 1998
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The Netherlands and the United States:
Comparing Important Drug and Violence Indicators
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|Social | Years |USA |Netherlands |
|Indicator | Compared | | |
+--------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|Lifetime | 1997 vs. | 38% | 21% |
|prevalence of | 1997 | #1 | #2 |
|marijuana | | | |
|use, ages 12 | | | |
|- 18 | | | |
+--------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|Past month | 1997 vs. | 18% | 11% |
|prevalence of | 1997 | #3 | #4 |
|marijuana | | | |
|use, ages 12 | | | |
|- 18 | | | |
+--------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|Heroin | 1995 vs. | 430 | 160 |
|users per | 1995 | #5 | #6 |
|100,000 | | | |
|population | | | |
+--------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|In | 1997 vs. | 645 | 65 |
|Incarceration | 1995 | #7 | #8 |
|Rate per | | | |
|100,000 | | | |
|population | | | |
+--------------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|Per capita | 1997 vs. | $81 | $27 |
|spending on | 1995 | #9 | #10 |
|drug-related | | | |
|law | | | |
|enforcement | | | |
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|Homicide | 1995 vs. | 8 | 1.8 |
|rate per | 1995 | #11 | #12 |
|100,000 | | | |
|population | | | |
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Sources #1, #3: National Institute on Drug Abuse, Monitoring the Future
Study, Washington D.C. (1997, December 20), press release.
Sources #2, #4: de Zwart, W.M., Stam, H. &; Kuiplers, S.B.M, Key
Data--Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use &; Gambling among Pupils Aged 10
Years or Older, Netherlands: Netherlands Institute of Health and Addiction
(1997), p. 26, Tables 13 &; 14.
Source #5: Abt. Associates, Inc., What America's Users Spend on Illegal
Drugs, 1988-1995, Commissioned by the White House Office of National Drug
Control Policy (1997, September 29); U.S. Bureau of the Census,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1996 (116th edition),
Washington D.C. (1996).
Source #6: Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport [VMS], Drug Policy
in the Netherlands--Continuity and Change, Netherlands (1995).
Source #7: Bureau of Justice Statistics; Based on total U.S. population in
1997 of 267,636,000 as per the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source #8: According to the Dutch Bureau of Statistics, CBS Voorburg, as
of September 30, 1996 the Netherlands had 11,931 prisoners with an
approximate population of 15,424,122. This data was provided by a
statistician at CBS Voorburg and obtained from Statistics Netherlands:
Statistical Yearbook 1998, p. 434, table 53.
Source #9: Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Drug Control
Strategy, 1997: Budget Summary, Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing
Office (1997); MacCoun, R. &; Reuter, P., "Interpreting Dutch Cannabis
Policy: Reasoning by Analogy in the Legalization Debate," Science, 278: 47
(1997); Based on total U.S. population in 1997 of 267,636,000 as per U.S.
Census Bureau.
Source #10: Drug-related law enforcement spending in the Netherlands in
1995 is estimated at 640 million Dutch Guilders according to the Dutch
Justice Department.
Source #11: The FBI reported that the homicide rate in 1995 was 8 per
100,000 people, for a total of 21, 597 homicides. (Uniform Crime Reports:
Dept. of Justice Press Release, 10/13/96).
Source #12: In both 1995 and 1996, the Netherlands recorded 273 homicides,
which is a homicide rate of 1.8 persons per 100,000 inhabitants.
(Registered Murders in the Netherlands, Press Release, CBS Voorburg -
Statistics Netherlands, 7/14/98).
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Available online at: http://www.csdp.org/factbook/
Questions, comments or suggestions for additions and modifications
may be addressed to Paul Lewin at: csdp@csdp.org
To stay informed, we recommend the DrugSense Weekly Newsletter;
http://www.drugsense.org/nl/
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