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You're reading In the face of a growing number of deaths linked to drug abuse, the Portuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack and decriminalized the use and possession of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. What do you think of the results of this policy?
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Oddly enough I only heard of this today
in an article in Scientific American:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=portugal-drug-decriminalization
"Five years later, the number of deaths from street drug overdoses dropped from around 400 to 290 annually, and the number of new HIV cases caused by using dirty needles to inject heroin, cocaine and other illegal substances plummeted from nearly 1,400 in 2000 to about 400 in 2006, according to a report released recently by the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C, libertarian think tank."
by palmagma on April 7th, 2009
>>I only heard of this today<<
My answer was purely a guess. I've harped on this subject (legalizing recreational drugs) for years. How many $billions have we (the U.S.) wasted in the ideological "War on Drugs"? Every time the DEA finds another joint in a college student's pocket, they boast of their "ongoing success" in keeping drugs off the street.
by Mr_Natural Abstractor of the Quintessence on April 7th, 2009