Legalise marijuana growing says police official

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The growing of marijuana in the Netherlands should be legal and the government should also distribute hard drugs to addicts, the departing chairman of the NPB police union said on Wednesday.


The current approach to tackling drugs-related crime has placed a heavy burden on the police and has had little result, news agency ANP quoted Hans van Duijn as saying.

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