John Tierney writes today’s column from Amsterdam, where he finds that contrary to what U.S. drug warriors would have us believe, Dutch drug policy hasn’t given rise to a nation of stoned zombie junkies.

I attended a forum at the Dutch embassy last year dealing with drug policy in the Netherlands. I was disappointed. The Dutch treat drug use a little like they way the public health crazies in this country would like to treat obesity. That’s certainly a step up from no-knock raids, mandatory minimums and confidential informants. But it’s still a far cry from treating citizens as adults, capable of making their own decisions about what they put into their bodies.

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