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<br /> Fectbook The Netherlands and the United States http //wwa• drugwarfacts org/thenethe htm <br /> reveal the same pictures. The Netherlands does not differ greatly <br /> from other European countries. In contrast, a comparison with <br /> the US shows a striking difference in this area: 32.9% of <br /> Americans aged 12 and above have experience with cannabis and <br /> 5.1% have used in the past month. These figures are twice as high <br /> as those in the Netherlands." <br /> Source' Netherlands 1~'I>nlstry of Health, Welfare and Sport, Drug Policy <br /> 1n the Netherland•~ Progress Report September 1997-September 1999. <br /> (The I-Iagne Ministry of Health, ~~'elfal•r and Sport, November ]999), pp <br /> 7-R <br /> 7. "The prevalence figures for cocaine use in the Netherlands do not <br /> differ greatly from those for other European countries. However, <br /> the discrepancy with the United States is very large. The <br /> percentage of the general population who have used cocaine at <br /> some point is 10.5% in the US, five times higher than in the <br /> Netherlands. The percentage who have used cocaine in the past <br /> month is 0.7°/a in the US, compared with 0.2% in the <br /> Netherlands <br /> Source: Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, Drug Pol>cy <br /> in the Netherlands Progress Report September 1997-September 1999, <br /> (The Hague: Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, November 1999), p. <br /> 6 The report notes "*The figures quoted >n th>s paragraph for drug use <br /> in the US are taken from the Nat>onal Household Survey 1997. <br /> SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, Washington, DC". <br /> 8. According to a report in the British Medical Journal in <br /> September of 2000, "Cannabis use among Dutch schoolchildren <br /> aged 10-18 years has fallen for the first time in 16 years, a <br /> national survey of risk behaviour among 10,000 young people has <br /> shown:'r The story notes that according to 1 ~ I n,ln,~. ; 11 <br /> \i1~1~ i~i,l In_~~l• !~~i ~ ilth,in~l \tititt•li~~r,,"about <br /> one in five young people had used cannabis at some point in <br /> their lives but less than a tenth had used it in the previous four <br /> weeks ("current users"):'r <br /> Source: Sheldon, Tony, "Cannabis use falls among Dutch youth," British <br /> Medical Journal (London, England September 16, 2000), vol. 321, p. 655 <br /> Email Thls Chapter <br /> <br /> 4 of 5 02/272001 A 38 4M <br /> <br />