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(which he calls Hamsterdam), and wound up with a supper at which the market-gardeners rose, clinked their glasses, and exclaimed with one accord (I quote him exactly) VIVE BEAUCOURT!
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844
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2004 In series three of the TV drama The Wire, right, a drugs-tolerance zone in a rundown area of Baltimore, known as Hamsterdam, is endorsed by the local police.
Britain looks at Portugal's success story over decriminalising personal drug use 2010
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The 'Hamsterdam' storyline, apparently inspired by the 'legalise drugs' movement, is a stunning and surprisingly even-handed piece of social commentary.
The Wire: Season 3 Adam Whitehead 2008
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The 'Hamsterdam' storyline, apparently inspired by the 'legalise drugs' movement, is a stunning and surprisingly even-handed piece of social commentary.
Archive 2008-10-01 Adam Whitehead 2008
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He made a deal with the dealers: no violence, no arrests for selling in what becomes known as "Hamsterdam," after the Dutch city which pioneered the quasi-legalization of marijuana.
Maia Szalavitz: The Wire V. the Baltimore Sun: Which Covers Addiction Better? 2008
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He rounds up all the drug dealers and tells them that they can sell their product in an abandoned area renamed "Hamsterdam" without fear of being arrested.
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He doesn’t minimize the moral compromise inherent in Hamsterdam.
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He doesn’t minimize the moral compromise inherent in Hamsterdam.
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The Wire, in which Colvin's "Hamsterdam" experiment - the creation, in a stretch of abandoned homes, of an enforcement-free zone where drug sales and use are tolerated in exchange for getting the dealers out of the neighborhoods they're destroying - is currently playing out, just as I am also seeing a growing number of headlines about powerful and murderous drug mobs on both sides of the Mexican Border.
The American Scene 2009
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They are put there with the understanding that as long as they stay in the boundaries of "Hamsterdam" the police will not bust them.
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