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The 'war on drugs' seems to be failing on all sides: combating drug crime is costing our society billions, while more and more young people are still getting involved in the cocaine trade. In the meantime, a significant part of the Netherlands has come to regard snorting coke as quite normal. The call for a different approach is therefore becoming increasingly louder. But can a government win against drug lords who have built billion-dollar empires? Should we all stop snorting? And how realistic is legal coke? In this 2-part series, Roos maps out our current drug policy and investigates the alternatives. Episode 1: Our 'war on drugs' is failing Chief Public Prosecutor Hugo Hillenaar explains to Roos, while sailing through the Port of Rotterdam, how the HARC team intercepts coke from thousands of containers and what punishments smugglers and extractors face. What are the consequences of the current drug policy for vulnerable young people? Former dealer Yassine takes Roos to the neighborhood where he used to deal and where many underprivileged young people see no other way out than to make money in the criminal drug world. And crime journalist Paul Vughts has interesting and shocking figures ready about both drug policy and cocaine trafficking. Follow Roos via: / roos.haarsma *This content is for educational purposes Website: https://www.npo3.nl/spuiten-en-slepen Instagram: /spuitenenslepen Facebook: /spuitenenslepen Tiktok: /spuitenenslepen ABOUT SPUITEN EN SLIKKEN Spuiten en Slikken is an educational YouTube channel about sex, drugs and lifestyle. On this channel, Ralph de Boer, Roos Haarsma and Diva Brons create content to create more sympathy for certain lifestyles and sex and drug related topics, about which there are many prejudices. In addition, they provide information about everything that has to do with sex and drugs and show how to experience this as safely and well as possible. Spuiten en Slikken is there to make difficult subjects discussable and to break taboos. ABOUT BNNVARA BNNVARA is a Dutch public broadcaster. The broadcaster of free, curious and social Netherlands. BNNVARA produces entertainment and information programs, radio programs and feature films. Some programs expose controversial subjects such as the organ donor shortage, drugs and sex.