Portugal What Happens When Drugs Are Legalized

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Portugal What Happens When Drugs Are Legalized

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What Happens When Drugs Are Legalized
July 6th, 2009
by Rick

Finally!

Above is some video footage from a mainstream news organization, BBC, reporting the overall result of the legalization and decriminalization of drugs in Portugal. Where many experts said that drug use would go up in the country and it would become a drug safe haven for tourists, the exact opposite has occurred.

Drug use in the country has gone down and there has been no influx of drug users seeking to abuse the system. As usual, there are those that are against the policy and feel nothing has changed, but the statistics speak for themselves. Is it time for other countries to start their own experiments with legalization?

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I thought drugs were merely decriminalised in Portugal?

Can anybody confirm this? Is heroin (for instance) available through other channels than the black market?
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Interesting, could we be seeing a change in thoughts.....

probably not but its nice to dream.
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what happens....we can sit in the sunshine in our own back yards without worrying about anyone walking past and arresting us :D ...sooner it happens,the better
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the jails empty, adults are no longer arrested for making informed choices about what they want to do with thier own bodies and minds... Sounds great. :cry:
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Puffin13 wrote:What Happens When Drugs Are Legalized
July 6th, 2009
by Rick

Finally!

Above is some video footage from a mainstream news organization, BBC, reporting the overall result of the legalization and decriminalization of drugs in Portugal. Where many experts said that drug use would go up in the country and it would become a drug safe haven for tourists, the exact opposite has occurred.

Drug use in the country has gone down and there has been no influx of drug users seeking to abuse the system. As usual, there are those that are against the policy and feel nothing has changed, but the statistics speak for themselves. Is it time for other countries to start their own experiments with legalization?

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If they gave people what they wanted they wouldnt have to go half way round the world for a smoking holiday.
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Yes, it's quite unpleasant feeling that you can go to jail simply for that you did not do any harm to other people.
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