Beauty for Ashes Upon Mayor Femke Halsema’s initiative, the Dealing with Drugs conference was held earlier this year to discuss not whether but how drugs like cocaine could be legalized. MDHG member Jessica was one of the speakers, passionately advocating for legal...
Older users require new rules The success of medical heroin provision is no longer up for debate. Since its introduction in 2007, the provision has been so successful that participants are aging much more than anticipated, a development which nobody had prepared for....
Waiting for a waitlist support worker The story of Rudy “Just drop by, I’m almost always here,” I hear Margot* saying. Margot is a coordinator at the relatively new “waiting list support” team at HVO-Querido. It took me over six months of calling and waiting for...
"I hope the Straatalliantie remains a pain in the ass" After years of battling for additional resources, the Straatalliantie (Street Alliance) was recently able to launch as an independent organization, with a full team now operating in an extensively renovated and...
Dutch Candy With Dutch Candy, Adam Fierman and photographer Peter Andrew Lusztyk created a beautiful coffee table book featuring photos of 42 different ecstasy pills. The American expat Fierman, residing in the Netherlands, became fascinated by the logos on the pills,...
