georgephillip
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- Dec 27, 2009
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The solution has already been found in Portugal, "whose culture and form of government are similar enough to our own to make comparison reasonable."Trump administration trying to fight back against invasion by drug cartels.
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"In 2001, Portugal decriminalized all drugs.
"All drugs.
"A decade later, hard drug abuse had dropped by half.
"Drug overdose deaths in Portugal are now all but nonexistent: just three for every million people each year. (Were overdose deaths happening in America at a Portuguese rate, we'd see fewer than 1,000 die annually, more than a 90 percent drop from the current numbers on opioid-related deaths, let alone total overdose deaths.)
"Portuguese use of sketchy 'legal' substitutes is way down, too, because there’s no need to mess with dangerous unknowns when you’ll only get a small fine and maybe a rehab referral if you’re caught with the real thing."
The War on Drugs is just another Racket.