Local governments want Portugal’s drug decriminalization results without resorting to Portugal’s methods. It can’t work. Former long-shot gubernatorial candidat

Local governments want Portugal’s drug decriminalization results without resorting to Portugal’s methods. It can’t work. Former long-shot gubernatorial candidate Michael Shellenberger has written about this extensively. >Many progressives believe that Portugal and Netherlands reduced drug deaths by simply decriminalizing drugs, which is wrong >The Portuguese coerce addicts to quit, and don't allow public drug use, as the architect of the Portuguese approach explained to me:[…] https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1415345836913922054 https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/14153458369139220...