Quote (Djunior @ 20 Dec 2021 11:36)
If you think think that allowing people to ruin their lives and let cities become addict filled shitholes where you can shoot up and crap on the streets has nothing to do with addiction problems you were talking about then I bow out of this discussion.
You're fucking hopeless.
Bro, Portugal decriminalised the possession and use of all drugs. Did it increase or decrease usage? No
Did it reduce the financial strain on the country? Yes
Did it reduce the amount of overdoses? Yes.
Moving things out if the dark do have benefits. Just got to do it right. Portugal spent 15 years considering this and how to do it.
In the grip of a drugs crisis, the country took a radical approach in 2001 and became the first country in the world to decriminalise all drugs for personal use. Drug abuse and addiction began to be seen as a public health issue, not a criminal offence. Initial resistance to the policy faded after statistics proved that treatment, rather than punishment, was reducing the number of deaths caused by drugs in Portugal. Dr João Castel-Branco Goulão was one of the chief architects of the shift in policy. He's been explaining to Rebecca Kesby why Portugal had such a pronounced drug problem to begin with and how the shift in strategy helped to reduce it.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6RJ7anWnuDe7HcesxKMOFt?si=iE7LxsPfSrWhkCcSl9Q9Fw&utm_source=copy-link