00:00We tried to meet with our contact officials at the Ministry of Justice, but were unable to do so.
00:05We only communicated via email and received a response from the minister's media office several weeks later.
00:11However, we did not receive conclusive answers to all our questions.
00:15In Mr. Halshauer's response, he stated that the Netherlands has tightened penalties for hard drug offenses in recent years
00:21and emphasized that the government does not encourage such trafficking.
00:25This is why we wanted to reduce the number of people coming from abroad to our coffee shops,
00:31because we believe it's a national problem and we cannot be the supplier of drugs for Western Europe or something like that.
00:48The Dutch government is doing everything it can to combat crime
00:52and is pursuing a policy of separating soft and hard drugs,
00:56which has already contributed to reducing the number of hard drug addicts,
01:00stabilizing their number at around 25,000.
01:03In the Netherlands, addicts are classified as patients, not criminals.
01:08Therefore, hard drug use is a health problem that is addressed through a rehabilitation program for addicts,
01:13which provides free drug doses and helps them gradually wean themselves off these drugs.
01:18But the Netherlands wants to change this image.
01:21What it is now focusing on is encouraging cultural and artistic tourism
01:26and strolling through its streets and historic neighborhoods rather than drug tourism.
01:30What it is now focusing on isoku whether in ε
01:48who wants to take care of drugimi services and assistance with for mainland 對不對.
