why are Americans 3.5 times a likely to use heroin compared to the Dutch?

why are Americans 3.5 times a likely to use heroin compared to the Dutch?despite the fact that the "gateway drug" cannabis is legal in holland?




US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Volume I. Summary of National Findings (Washington, DC: HHS, August 2002), p. 109, Table H.1.
2: Trimbos Institute, "Report to the EMCDDA by the Reitox National Focal Point, The Netherlands Drug Situation 2002" (Lisboa, Portugal: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Nov. 2002), p. 28, Table 2.1.
Lifetime prevalence of heroin use (ages 12+)
US: 1.4%
Holland 0.4%

(see above sources)
@preggers; actually, the street price of a gram of heroin in the US is $ 131, while in holland its $ 32, according to the UN

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/WDR-2009.html

Answer by Carrie
Why is this in "politics"?

Answer by Me
How about some proof instead of the BS you posted.

Answer by MartinK
The Dutch are too stoned to remember to pick-up some heroin.

Answer by Preggers
Access to the drug would be the main reason.

Its easier to get Heroin in the US and at a better price then in Holand.

Answer by Daniel
In Amsterdam they have safe injecting places where heroine users can legally inject themselves under medical supervision and are given free needles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_injection_site

Drug overdoses per million inhabitants
the Netherlands - 2.4
The USA - 38.0

Source:
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?client=mv-google&v=sTPsFIsxM3w

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