

With weed, what the Dutch model tries to achieve is to not punish people for smoking weed, but also not turn it into a for-profit industry that would create an incentive to get more people addicted.
It’s more that there’s a lot of conservative parties that do not agree on the drug policy. E.g. enough Christian parties who would rather be more restrictive.
A certain Dutch political party repeated Russian talking points for various years. The party leader recently threatened another politician when they were asked if they received Russian money. Instead of going to war it’s way cheaper to just buy a few politicians.