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You could take a look at the results in Portugal: https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decriminalized-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening#.MNdT
by shams93 10y ago
You could take a look at the results in Portugal:
https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decriminalized-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening#.MNdTXLhE0 https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decr...
- d0mine 10y agoThe "Drug-induced deaths" plot from the link is very telling.
- loverofcode 10y agoit is.
- loverofcode 10y agowow. very good info. saved link.
- slavik81 10y agoThe statistics are interesting, but they kind of miss the GGP's point. Decriminalization is not legalization. If you just decriminalize, drug users still have to buy their drugs from sketchy black-market suppliers. That's very dangerous compared to buying from a legal, regulated industry. For example, alcohol is predictable and pure today but in the prohibition era, when all suppliers were criminals, it wasn't [1][2]. [1] http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1864521_1864524_1864626,00.html http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288... [2] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...