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Author Snelders, Stephen, 1963- author.

Title Drug Smuggler Nation : Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920-1995 / Stephen Snelders
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The drug regulatory regime vs. criminal anarchy -- 2 The interwar period -- 3 Global perils I: Chinese and Greek drug smugglers -- 4 Cannabis, counterculture, and criminals: The rise of cannabis smuggling -- 5 Global perils II: Chinese triads, Turkish families, and heroin -- 6 The expansion of the cannabis trade after 1976 -- 7 Global perils III: Colombian syndicates and cocaine -- 8 The floodgates of criminal anarchy: Synthetic drugs and subverting the state -- 9 Conclusion -- Appendix: Graphs of arrests and seizures -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Drug smuggler nation shows how and why the Netherlands developed in the course of the twentieth century into a central hub of the international illegal drug trade, and develops a model of a 'criminal anarchy' that is historically, socially, and culturally embedded in Dutch society, in both native and migrant communities, to explain the failures of the state's regulatory policies and law enforcement
Analysis XTC
amphetamines
cannabis
cocaine
drug trafficking
drugs
heroin
opium
organized crime
smuggling
Notes Print version record
Subject Drug traffic -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century
Drug control -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century
Electronic books.
e-books.
HISTORY / Europe / Western.
Drug control
Drug traffic
Netherlands
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526151384
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