Drugs should be sold at the grocery store, no question asked. They should be cheap too. That would solve the drug problem.
Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts
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#12> Porto’s police have increased patrols to drug-plagued neighborhoods. But given existing laws, there’s only so much they can do. On a recent afternoon, an emaciated man in striped pants sleeping in front of a state-funded drug-use center awoke to a patrol of four officers. He sat up, then defiantly began assembling his crack pipe. Officers walked on, shaking their heads.
What were they supposed to in a different country? Arrest the guy, spend money putting him in jail, wait til he gets back out and repeat?
Re: Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts
#13Talk about burying the lede, 11 years ago they privatized their drug oversight operation and cut funding by over 80%. Gee, I wonder if that could have an impact? > After years of economic crisis, Portugal decentralized its drug oversight operation in 2012. A funding drop from 76 million euros ($82.7 million) to 16 million euros ($17.4 million) forced Portugal’s main institution to outsource work previously done by th…
Wish I could have upvoted this comment a couple of more times.
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#15Drugs should be sold at the grocery store, no question asked. They should be cheap too. That would solve the drug problem.
Have you seen how much San Francisco and Seattle have improved with drug tolerant policies?
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#16Drugs should be sold at the grocery store, no question asked. They should be cheap too. That would solve the drug problem.
It always trips me out reading early 20th century novels where the protagonist will stop in a drug store, buy a pint of whiskey, some cocaine or other now schedule 1 drug, and then sit down at the soda fountain counter and have lunch. Talk about one stop shopping.
On a related tangent, Heroin is actually a former trademark. Not a lapsed one, but one that was specifically revoked to punish Bayer during the war. Aspirin was another one. And that's why you see generic "aspirin" but no generic explicitly marketed as "xerox" or "kleenex." The kleenex mark is weakened, but not dead like aspirin and heroin.
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#17Has any advanced civilization been gung-ho about legalized drugs?
There are probably strong socioevolutionary reasons why this is the case.
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#18I love it, the entire argument of this article boils down to, "A problem with visibility" rather than any failure of the policy. As though an existing problem being visible isn't societal pressure to better address the problem. Oh they also present statistics contained to the 2019-2023 period as though that wasn't pandemic-driven.
The issue is that making a behavior more visible tends to normalize it.
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#19Drugs should be sold at the grocery store, no question asked. They should be cheap too. That would solve the drug problem.
Either you're just trolling or you haven't spent enough time on the internet to realise that it's impossible for us to tell if you're trolling or sincere.