Portugal legalizes drugs - crime/usage falls

Jackie London

♥ Howlin' Pelle


Huh? They mean that TREATING the addiction instead of PUNISHING the addiction leads to less addiction? How does that work? <-- Irony!
 
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"June 26th was the UN’s World Anti-Drug Day. China usually celebrates the day with mass executions and officials in other countries will trot out the usual speeches about the need to continue the war on drugs with ever greater determination. Yet despite a chorus of legal, military, law enforcement and public health voices calling for fundamental reform of our drug policies, their voices have largely fallen on deaf ears when it comes to elected officials. We do not need yet another blue ribbon commission or academic study to tell us our current policies are not working. So why does this zombie drug war continue to march on and what can be done to stop it?...http://www.opendemocracy.net/sanho-...ublic-that-drug-war-has-been-complete-failure

(Good discussion about why politicians can't face the fact that the war on drugs has failed, without offering a 'hard' solution)
 
Some of Britain's leading drug experts demand today that the government's classification regime be scrapped and replaced by one that more honestly reflects the harm caused by alcohol and tobacco. They say the current ABC system is "arbitrary" and not based on evidence.
The scientists, including members of the government's top advisory committee on drug classification, have produced a rigorous assessment of the social and individual harm caused by 20 substances, and believe this should form the basis of any future ranking.

By their analysis, alcohol and tobacco are rated as more dangerous than cannabis, LSD and ecstasy.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/mar/23/constitution.drugsandalcohol
 
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