DUTCH DRUGGED OUT OF THEIR MINDS

According to a recent report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCCDA), the capital city of the most civilized country in Europe is tops in recreational drug ingestion. What this means is that Amsterdam is ahead, way ahead, of all other European cities.
More marijuana and ecstasy use than any where else.
Second to London for Cocaine.

See here: PDF - Assessing illicit drugs in wastewater.


Three other cities where Dutch or some variant thereof are spoken also rank very highly: Eindhoven, Utrecht, and Antwerpen.

[Note: natives of Eindhoven and Antwerpen speak dialects of Netherlandish, that while quite intelligible to the unbiased ear come across as strange and outlandish to Amsterdammers, who themselves have strong accents and extremely peculiar speech habits.
Evenso, the Dutch linguistic web and woof unites us.]


As a Dutchspeaker, of largely Dutch ethnic derivation, I do not quite know what to make of these findings.


Pride, I suppose; we're number one! Yay!


Still, I have this nasty suspicion that the figures are influenced by all those foreigners -- Americans, British, German, French, Scandinavian, Eastern European, Caribbean, Muslim, et autres -- who flock to the Netherlands to enjoy the blessings of civilization. Only one of which is the wide availability of illicit substances.

We also have museums, you know.

Famous art and stuff.



Tell you what; we'll gladly distribute all the substances you crave, in your own countries, for a modest profit of course, provided only your sane and sober citizens come and visit the museums. That way you can keep the addicts, AND show your best faces when we see you in Amsterdam.
We'll also send Heineken.


Win-win.




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