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Glenn Greenwald - The Decriminalization of Drugs in Portugal

submitted by Zyrxil

1 decade 4 years 11 months 4 weeks ago

Glenn Greenwald is interviewed about his study on the success of Portugal's decriminalization of all drugs since 2001.

2 Comments

Farhad2000

says...

Wow I didn't even know about this, looks like they decriminalized all criminal drug laws for soft and hard drugs in 2001, allowing possession of 10 times the regular dose, treating infractions as a social and addiction problem.

Generally I believe the US is heading towards full decriminalization, I believe currently 13 states have medical marijuana programs, with California being the most progressive. The DOJ has stated raids against head shops will now end. Polls from 2001 to 2008 show a steady rise in support decriminalization.

The tipping point will be how the current moves to tax marijuana in California will proceed, which is being discussed as a means to curb the state debt.

I personally believe that even incremental decriminalization will how profound effects on reducing large criminal cartels in Mexico and South America as they are key suppliers of most of the drugs that seep into the US.

Numinar

says...

As long as the whole country does not turn into the red light district of Amsterdamn... I guess that joint is just bad (At least on my last visit) because of the intensity of awesomeness there.

It would be a good thing for South America (and elsewhere) as well if the fucktards down there do not get 100 times the income from this stuff that they will after decriminilastion and we all start growing our own in the backyard. Maybe they will actually be able to try and build real economies.