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2000-2001 Progress Report on the Drug Policy of the Netherlands (PDF) Article on Amsterdam drug scene; NL Planet - Dutch Soft Drugs Policy "Gedogen" - active Dutch tolerance. Archived 25 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine "The National Institute of the Netherlands in the field of mental health and dependency care" (in Dutch)
Other types of sales and transportation are not permitted, although the general approach toward cannabis was lenient even before official decriminalisation. [7] [8] [9] Though retail sales are tolerated, production, transportation, and bulk possession of marijuana outside of retail stores is illegal, preventing testing for contaminants and dosing.
[1] [2] It was adopted on 15 February 1985 at the first World Whores Congress in Amsterdam by the newly formed International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights (ICPR). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Charter established a human rights -based approach to prostitution, demanding that sex workers be guaranteed freedom of speech, travel, immigration, work, marriage ...
Plaque on 'Belle: "Respect sexworkers all over the world, Els Rijerse 2007, commissioned by Mariska Majoor, Prostitution Information Center (PIC), Amsterdam". Majoor supported the abolition of the Dutch brothel ban in 2000 and considered it "a logical step" towards the decriminalisation of sex work. [12]
Variations of drug liberalization include drug legalization, drug relegalization, and drug decriminalization. [1] Proponents of drug liberalization may favor a regulatory regime for the production, marketing, and distribution of some or all currently illegal drugs in a manner analogous to that for alcohol , caffeine and tobacco .
Decriminalization or decriminalisation is the legislative process which removes prosecutions against an action so that the action remains illegal but has no criminal penalties or at most some civil fine. [1] This reform is sometimes applied retroactively but otherwise comes into force from either the enactment of the law or from a specified date.
In the mid-1970s a highly politicised prostitutes' rights movement, later known as the sex workers' rights movement, emerged in Europe. [5] It began with the strike by French prostitutes in 1975, which led to the creation of the French Collective of Prostitutes and in turn inspired the formation of groups such as the English Collective of Prostitutes in England (1975), the New York Prostitutes ...
In 1970, a year before the complete decriminalization of homosexuality in the Netherlands, [10] a group of gay activists were arrested for trying to lay a wreath at the National Monument to the Victims of World War II on Dam Square, Amsterdam. The flowers were removed from the memorial by the police and declared insulting to the memory of the dead.