Thursday, December 22, 2011

Netherlands: Cannabis Coffee-Shops Appear To Minimally Impact Dutch Use Patterns

Netherlands: Cannabis Coffee-Shops Appear To Minimally Impact Dutch Use Patterns: "Thursday, 22 September 2011

Berkeley, CA: The proliferation of Dutch 'coffee-shops,' which allow for the sale of limited quantities of marijuana to patrons age 18 or older, appears to have had little impact on Dutch cannabis use patterns, according to an analysis published online in the scientific journal Addiction.

University of California at Berkeley researcher Robert MacCoun compared some 40 years of Dutch data on cannabis "prevalence, ... patterns of use, treatment, sanctioning, process, and purity" with comparable data from Europe and the United States."

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