Son, you said Amsterdam has less of a DRUG problem, and DRUG related crime. MJ is included in this category (DRUG) so is heroin, cocaine, meth, etc. When I made a remark about people sitting in a park with a needle in their arm - you simply said that you saw documentaries and your mama was there and it wasn't that big of a deal, at least that's how I saw it. You even threw a little sympathy over there with the whole "lets hug a druggie" aka they help them and we throw away the key after we put those poor bastards in jail. In humor, I even offered a Russian solution.
This is what I got in response, if you recall.
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Their attitude about drugs over there is completely different over there. They actually HELP people get off of the hardcore **** instead of just throwing them in jail and throwing away the key like we do here.
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If they help people why is their prison population made up of of 50% of former druggies? Why are they blamed for ~80% of property crimes? Clearly, completely different attitude. Why are the mayors of towns trying to move anything that has to do with drugs to the outskirts of towns, and away from people? Another thing that indicates a "completely different attitude", right!
The tidbit about statistics, notice how I'm making fun of statistics and saying they are easily manipulated. I was supporting my position with that quote (I'll spell this out for you, stats are BS), not arguing against you. I was making fun of you with that quote though. Squirrel and I were talking about how shady campus crime reporting/statistics can be... get with the program already. Are the statistics that I posted real, most likely they are. Do they have any correlation, maybe or maybe not - no one will ever know because correlation does not imply causation as you have implied in your initial post about Amsterdam's DRUG problem (which was wrong anyways).