Should We Legalize Drugs in America?
Question by Foghorn: Should we legalize drugs in America?
I’m not a pot head and personally I don’t even touch the stuff. I admit that I do drink on occasion but I have no addiction whatsoever. I amaze all my friends and family with that one. I am just not an addictive person. I was watching the CNBC show “Marijuana USA” and I admit that if we legalize it. I think it would be better cause it worked for Portugal. The first country in the world to legalize all drugs. Amazing right from Socialist to freedom.
The question is, does the new policy work? At the time, critics in the poor, socially conservative and largely Catholic nation said decriminalizing drug possession would open the country to “drug tourists” and exacerbate Portugal’s drug problem; the country had some of the highest levels of hard-drug use in Europe. But the recently released results of a report commissioned by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, suggest otherwise.
The paper, published by Cato in April, found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.
“Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success,” says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney, author and fluent Portuguese speaker, who conducted the research. “It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does.”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html#ixzz1OpldCH00
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Answer by howard
yes, yes, yes a million times yes, drugs being illegal makes as much sense as lamps being illegal
Answer by enigmalasts74
Then who would be put in prison for the for-profit prison system?
Government officials like Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and her husband who own stock in prisons won’t like that idea!! Why do you think she’s “tough” on immigration?? LMAO
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