Amsterdam
Dutch kids as young as 12 are becoming addicted to superstrong strains of marijuana, a Dutch TV news program reported this week. Pot growers in the Netherlands now produce a weed 20 times stronger and more addictive than imported varieties—and much stronger than the stuff the Dutch smoked in the 1960s. Addiction specialist Dr. Romeo Ashruf said on the program Bij ons Thuis that today’s parents were “caught in a flower-power time warp.” They think their kids are just sharing an occasional joint, he said, when actually kids often smoke alone and get high every day. Using marijuana is legal in the Netherlands for those 18 and over.
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