Conservative FOX News Channel television host Bill O'Reilly did a piece on Amsterdam, with guests arguing that the legalization of marijuana and brothels has turned the country into a "cesspool of corruption."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPsFIsxM3w
One Amsterdam resident created a video rebuttal to the claims, showing statistics of higher cannabis use, homicide rate and drug-related deaths in the United States compared to The Netherlands.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPsFIsxM3w
Bill O'Reilly on Amsterdam
References
Fast Facts
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Fact:
Original O'Reilly segment aired on December 8, 2008
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Monica Crowley from MonicaMemo.com describes Amsterdam as out of control and anarchy
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Republican strategist Margaret Hoover calls Amsterdam a "mess"
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Cannabis use in the U.S.
40.3% of people
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Cannabis use in the Netherlands
22.6% of people
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U.S. homicide rate per 100 people
5.6
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Netherlands homicide rate per 100 people
1.2
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U.S. drug-related deaths
38 per million
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Netherlands drug-related deaths
2.4 per million
