Dealing with drugs in Europe; an investigation of European drug control experiences: France, the Netherlands and Sweden

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

KJC6191

90-5454-518-6

Dealing with drugs in Europe; an investigation of European drug control experiences: France, the Netherlands and Sweden.

Boekhout van Solinge, Tim.

BJu Legal Publishers, [c]2004

245 p.

$45.00 (pa)

Individual countries have chosen distinctly different paths in developing and implementing anti-drug programs and laws. This apparently cannot be explained by national drug problems that differ in nature or scale. Boekhout van Solinge believes that national cultural traditions have greatly influenced states' approach to drug policy. He describes the efforts to stop illicit drug use at a global level, then moves to national efforts at control, including the role the US has taken at the international level. He describes the legislation of drug use and trafficking in France and its tradition of central control, the political and social culture that has led to drug tolerance in The Netherlands, and the restrictive alcohol policies in Sweden that have led to the same in the case of drugs, and how these differences have led to conflict at the international level. Distributed in the US by ISBS.