scription, "it experienced a thirty fold increase with many addicts staying with illegal suppliers"](Finley 1). The "drug parks" in Switzerland had to shut down withing 5 years due to the amount and violence and death (1). This constituted a coalition against drugs in Europe. In all actuality, there were increases in crime and a phenomenal increase in heroin addictions as a result of legalizing heroin. In the Netherlands, "there was almost a 33 percent increase in gun deaths, almost all of them drug related" (Finley 1). It is ironic that the English would obtain drugs from illegal markets considering that it would be easier, cheaper, and safer to obtain them by prescription. One has to wonder if the whole "scoring" is a prelude to the effects of a particular drug. The Netherlands experimentation with soft drugs like marijuana, has in its own right posed dangerous effects. Of these, were the luring of drug addicts from other countries into the mainstream of their society. There were enough addicts in their own country without adding to this distressing predicament. It seems that advocates for drug legalization lean towards the safety of the Netherlands, but disregard that recently "it has become the leading country in Europe in the category of assaults and threats" (Finley 1). Therefore the legalization of soft drugs, in Maastricht, Netherlands, has shown to be just as devastating with regards to the overwhelming number of clinics set up to help the addicts and the problems of outside addicts who come to this city to purchase drugs. Even though marijuana, a drug considered soft, is purchased openly in cannabis cafes, violations occur in the sales and many hard drugs are still sold in the streets (Simons A-32). The Dutch now have a pending dilemma of "drug tourism" and the police complain that "80 percent of their time is taken up by drug related crimes...that serve largely to pay for the foreigners needs" (A-32). According to...
