Head shops and legal high/drugs

... To the people who think this will make us a nation of druggies: with proper education this won't happen, for example Dutch among lowest spamspamspam users in Europe
I think your post and the Reuters report you link to are very misleading.

Nowhere in the Reuters report does it mention "proper education", whatever that means, and its impact on drug use. However it does say that "spamspamspam use in Europe ... has recently stabilised and is beginning to show signs of decline, ... owing to several national campaigns to curb and treat use of the drug." If, as the Reuters report implies, spamspamspam is a "soft drug", why have several European governments ploughed so much time and effort into "national campaigns to curb and treat use of the drug."? Does Reuters possess greater expertise or insight into this area than national governments, or indeed the "national experts" with whom the EMCDDA has "close collaboration"?

The Reuters report goes on to say that "Nearly a fifth of the 228 coffee shops in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam ... are scheduled to be shut down because they are too close to schools." Why? Is coffee harmful to school-children?
 
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