Portugal Drug Use Drops 10% After Legalizing (BBC/ Official Statistics)

[mrstrings2006]

You wanna gamble all your money away in a casino, you're a free being, that's your choice.

You wanna eat 10 cheeseburgers a day and be 500lbs, you're a free being, that's your choice.

You wanna drink 3 bottles of Vodka everyday, you're a free being, that's your choice.

You wanna smoke cigarettes and get lung cancer, you're a free being, that's your choice.

And you wanna smoke heroin everyday and be an addict, you're a free being, that's your choice.

[tristan01101]

Thank you, Portugal. Setting a good example.

[MrMastergamer19]

we win =)

[baalisgod666]

I live in Australia. Currently, I spend $360 each fortnight on cannabis. All proceeds go to Biker gangs who spend it on weapons and killing people. That isn't my problem, and I do not intend to stop. Decriminalize it and the gangs will have no employment, and I could spend some money in the real economy.

[FeldwebelWolfenstool]

Retards running governments are all scared shitless that they'll all start shooting H into their blood veins with dull, dirty used syringes.

[amy2x]

Was not legalized. Was decriminalized. Portugal abolished all criminal penalties for "personal possession" of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. It is still a crime to produce and sell for profit. Caught having over a specified amount get you for trafficking. I am for decriminalizing.

[LetsTalkPolitix]

@amy2x I would rather the transactions behind drug trade be enforced by the rule of law rather than the black market law of the jungle. However, I do see how maybe some counties would prefer to stay clear of open sale similar to dry counties. But closed sale or posession criminalization becomes a gang scenario the instant criminality is introduced into the equation.

[SophiaMercy]

Makes sense. What is more boring than a substance that is legal, regulated, and taxed.

[surfermoffy1]

@SophiaMercy Exactly, always thought I'd be for legalising drugs as a casual user but if it was legal, doing things like mdma would seem weird and desperate in some sort of way.

[BigDH28]

Thats Awesome! To bad the USA would never do this. I bet it would work... It has for the countries that tried it.

[MrRmc01]

on the way to lisbon

[iamaronpaulblican]

this is nothing new

its been done before and same result now too