Germany found itself mired in the increasingly heated European debate over drug legalization. In the Netherlands 2,000 coffeehouses openly sell marijuana and hashish.

Germany found itself mired in the increasingly heated European debate over drug legalization last week when an appellate judge in Lubeck declared the < country’s laws against marijuana and hashish unconstitutional. In a ruling that must now be tested in the nation’s highest court, Judge Wolfgang Neskovic overturned the…

Dutch leniency is aimed at isolating and controlling a problem under supervision of the authorities, but there appears to be an increasingly consensus: It has grown out of hand.

Ed van Thijn considers himself a tolerant man, but he readily admits that he is no longer as broad-minded as he was when he became mayor of Amsterdam in 1983. At that time the Dutch city of 700,000 was notorious as the drug capital of Europe, a place where hashish…

Over the past 18 months Amsterdam has changed from merely a drug-using city to the chief narcotics distribution point in Europe. Drug traffic moved to the NL because of its liberal attitude.

Actor Gene Hackman and a crew of narcotics agents and drug pushers out of Central Casting are currently in Marseille filming The French Connection II, a sequel to the award-winning 1971 dope flick. But as any real narc could tell them, this time they have the wrong location. For the…