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How did the red light district in Amsterdam come about? What about its relatively lax enforcement of drug laws? What led Amsterdam (and presumably the Netherlands in general) to develop greater legal permissiveness than the rest of Europe?

by /u/td4999 in /r/AskHistorians

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