Not only is the Netherlands the largest drug producer in Europe, it is also the most important transfer point for the global trade in cannabis, cocaine and heroin.

Weed is exported from the Netherlands to every corner of the world. An estimated half of all cocaine in Europe enters via the port of Rotterdam, where eleven million containers arrive annually, of which only fifty thousand are checked.

Coke that finds its way to Russia, Asia, the Middle East and Australia is redistributed in the Netherlands. Moroccan and Afghan hashish spreads through Europe via the Netherlands. Heroin supply lines from the East branch in the Netherlands to the rest of the continent.