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It seems like we’re screwed either way. Reading and watching videos about Portugal, it does not look like it’s going very well. It seems like the experiment to
by Dig1t 3y ago
It seems like we’re screwed either way. Reading and watching videos about Portugal, it does not look like it’s going very well. It seems like the experiment to decriminalize drugs there started out going pretty well but has turned ugly in recent years.
idk what we can possibly do.
Drugs are already effectively decriminalized in coastal cities anyway and it doesn’t look like it’s doing good things for the population.
- wellthisisgreat 3y agoI read that Portugal derailed the program itself, underfunded and privatized it and it’s a shadow of what it was when it started. I imagine it’s important to support the drug infrastructure so to speak - support for addicts, non-police-centric ways of dealing with the potential addicts etc. drugs are the devil, but they do come with their share of problems, which you can’t expect to just vanish upon legalizaton. Government/ society gotta put in an effort comparable at least to that of the anti-tobacco etc.