Portugal's Drug Experience: New Study Confirms Decriminalization Was a Success
Time Magazine (US)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
From the perspective of drug warriors, the criminal laws against drug possession are all that protect Americans from a deluge of drugs, an orgy of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine use that would kill children, destroy productivity and basically leave America a smoking hulk of wasteland populated by brain-dead zombies. New research on Portugal's drug policy suggests that this isn't necessarily so.
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