Annex 1
DRUGS IN
THE NETHERLANDS
Sources: 1/2/3: Dutch Governmental Paper on
Alcohol; 2001-2003.
2: (number of alcoholics): Trimbosinstitute,
Mensink & Spruit, 1998.
4: Personal information from high officials
of Justice Department and Police.
The Netherlands Drug Policy Foundation ("Stichting
Drugsbeleid"—SDB) was founded in 1996. It strives for
a drug policy with less health risks and less crime.
In 1996 the SDB published a report, titled "Drug
Control through Legalisation". It broke through the existing
taboo on legalising drugs in the public debate, putting forward
a concrete plan.
In 1998 we published a plan to regulate the
growing of cannabis to be sold in the "coffeeshops",
and organised a lobby of city majors urging the government to
allow such regulatory measures. It resulted in a majority motion
in Parliament, and the promise by the government to stimulate
an international debate on cannabis.
BOARD:
R Dufour—president, director private company
Marijke AS Van Sprang-Kamstra—secretary,
member city-council Lelystad for Democrats 66
RT Steinbuch—treasurer
R van Diessen—alderman Tilburg for Liberal
Party VVD
JWE Gutteling—alderman Apeldoorn for Socialist
Party PvdA
J van Leijenhorst—former alderman, member
city-council Utrecht for Green-Left Party Groen Links
F Polak—psychiatrist Amsterdam
J Schijf—former alderman Heerhugowaard
for Liberal Party VVD
JG van der Tas—former ambassador in Germany
ADVISORY BOARD:
Hedy d'Ancona—former Minister of Public
Health, former member of the European Parliament
ThMG van Berkestijn—former Secretary General
of the Royal Dutch Medical Association
A van Dantzig—psychiatrist
H Drion—former vice-president High Court
of Justice
JF Glastra van Loon—former Under-Minister
of Justice
R van der Hoeven—Public Prosecutor
M Lap—advisor drug-policy
JCM Leijten—former Public Prosecutor at
the High Court of Justice
T Reitsma—Superintendent of Police
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