Debate October 1971 🇳🇱 Netherlands

The Hulsman Commission proposes taking cannabis out of criminal law

A commission set up by the national federation of mental health organisations and chaired by the criminal law professor Louk Hulsman argued that forcing users of different drugs into one criminal subculture exposed cannabis users to harder drugs. It recommended removing use and small possession of cannabis from criminal law.^[1]

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People · Dutch criminal lawyer and criminologist · 1923–2009Louk HulsmanA Dutch professor of criminal law, and an escaped prisoner of the Nazis, whose commission argued in 1971 that cannabis users should be taken out of criminal law and kept apart from the market in harder drugs. The idea became Dutch policy.

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CEDRO — Peter Cohen, The case of the two Dutch drug policy commissions (1994)archived

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