for starters, their country is about 2/3 the size of Florida so that is a bit easier to handle drug issues.
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Rhode Island has a big drug problem and that is much smaller than Portugal
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my point exactly. the challenges of a Federal Gov’t to handle a national drug issue that has various contexts across a major country.
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The drug war has been a total disaster in every way. We can agree on that. Need a new modern approach. Idk what that is though
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agreed. 140 character responses will have us running in circles on this one ;-)
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We are talking in proportion here not sheer numbers
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Drug addicted people in Portugal are considered sick people, not criminals.
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That would take away from private prison profits
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Decriminalize drugs and treat people as victims of a disease, not criminals.
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Exactly!
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I think I would favor this. rather see drug addicts treated than jailed. Rather see families fighting addiction than prisons over-filled
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W/O reading the article I would guess they are not run by pharmaceutical companies like we are here.
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The people of Portugal are healthy, they eat right, walk and bike everywhere.they are physically fit so they are happier humans
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I do agree that drug addiction does not make a person a criminal, but crimes committed by addicts must be addressed. Legal drugs: NO
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Those are two very different things and nothing in that article said that crimes committed by drug users were excused (that I saw). Making
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Drug use itself legal has no effect on making other crimes legal. Drug addicts most often commit crimes to feed their habit not because
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They are inherently more law breaking by nature. So by making the drugs legal that simply means more people will get help and far far fewer
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Fewer people are dying, but how many are still addicted and how many new addicts do they have? It's all in the statistics.
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Correct it's a drop of 75%. Additionally the jails are not full of people who's only crime is addiction. I'm not saying it's a perfect
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Answer but dear god it's better than this.
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Since you don't make any sense, we really can't debate.
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