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5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results
Until now, there has been no increase in sped up coke addicts or meth heads disrupting life for Portugal's fine, upstanding citizens. Similarly, comatose heroin addicts are becoming less bountiful in alleyways and side streets.
When can America get it's act together, suppress it's urge to cast it's sense of morality onto everyone in the form of a "war on drugs", and get rid of the nonsense drug laws created by people who have no idea what the fuck they're talking about.
Of course we don't want to comment.
ortuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack to get a handle on the problem—it decriminalized the use and possession of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD and other illicit street drugs.
"Drug decriminalization did reach its primary goal in Portugal," of reducing the health consequences of drug use, he says, "and did not lead to Lisbon becoming a drug tourist destination."
Until now, there has been no increase in sped up coke addicts or meth heads disrupting life for Portugal's fine, upstanding citizens. Similarly, comatose heroin addicts are becoming less bountiful in alleyways and side streets.
When can America get it's act together, suppress it's urge to cast it's sense of morality onto everyone in the form of a "war on drugs", and get rid of the nonsense drug laws created by people who have no idea what the fuck they're talking about.
A spokesperson for the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy declined to comment, citing the pending Senate confirmation of the office's new director, former Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs also declined to comment on the report.
Of course we don't want to comment.