Chapter 4.

FIVE LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS

Rationales

Pragmatic rationales

The goals or rationales for Dutch drug policy include the following:

• to promote safer methods of consumption of cannabis;
• to limit sales of cannabis to specialist sellers;
• to limit progression from cannabis use to other drugs;
• to limit the amount of violence in the cannabis distribution system; and
• to limit the substitution of other (more damaging) drugs for cannabis.