Which countries are you talking about?
No Western country I know of has an even remotely similar policy to the US on drugs. Most of them don't have >99% white population either btw.
No Western country I know of has an even remotely similar policy to the US on drugs. Most of them don't have >99% white population either btw.
There's a difference in policy with respect to sentencing. While in Finland (for example) possession of cannabis usually gets you a fine, it's possible to get a jail sentence for that in the United States (though it's legal to possess small amounts of cannabis in some states). However, this difference can be explained by tougher sentencing for crime in general
Decriminalization of cannabis seems to be slightly more common in the USA than it's in Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World-cannabis-laws.png
I don't understand where this idea comes from that drug laws are lax in Europe (maybe from pop culture references to the Netherlands?). They're pretty tough, but jail sentences are less common just as it's for other crimes.
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