Getting high in Portugal: drug use legal. USA?

[Jerurussia]

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Just found out Portugal legalized drug use and drug problems lessened. So was astounded to hear Johann Hari’s interview on the 100-year-old war on drugs that was, in part, instigated by armed criminal drug cartels. Drug lords may have dumped their “expendables” into the USA in 2014 with Obama’s welcome to the 13-17-year-olds they use for grisly murders to enforce the illegal drug trade. The “expendables” are the pint-sized enforcer arm of the U.S.-trained ZETA gangsters trained with our tax dollars to fight the war on drugs who hit the border and switched sides.

Mississippi changed their policy with mandatory rehab, not jail, and the lucrative prison industry has shriveled. Ready for a new perspective on why the drug lords, from the Chinese 100 years ago to cartels in the 1980’s, want drugs illegal?

Here’s my poll. Do you believe the CIA has dumped drugs into the inner cities in racist exploitation that funds their black budget programs?

 

[_Abyssinia]

Did drug problems lessen? I think there are conflicting reports but I have read that the following statistics come from a publication published by doctors. Here is the Google translation:

Contrary to what has been disclosed in recent days by authorities, the problem of drug abuse in Portugal was never so severe: between 2001, when the law of decriminalization was implemented, and 2007, continued drug use noted in absolute terms, an increase of 66 percent.

During this period, there was an increase of 215 percent in cocaine, 85 percent of ecstasy, 57.5 percent of heroin and 37 per cent of cannabis. Data are from a report by the Institute for Drugs and Drug Addiction (IDT), published in November 2008.

Since decriminalization, there was a 50 percent increase in drug use in young people aged between 20 and 24 years. On the other hand, the number of people who have tried illicit drugs at least once, rose from 7.8 percent in 2001 to 12 percent in 2007 (RTD - Activities Report November 2008).

The highest rates of mortality caused by HIV / AIDS among drug users, were reported by Portugal, followed by Estonia, Spain, Latvia and Italy.

The report also refers to the number of deaths with positive drug tests (314), the Portuguese Institute of Forensic Medicine in 2007, which registration risen by 45 percent. This is the highest number since 2001, highlighting the growing trend of drug since 2005 (RTD - Activities Report November 2008)…

In Portugal, since decriminalization, the number of drug-related killings rose 40 percent. Was the only European country with a significant increase in drug-related homicides between 2001 and 2006 (UN - WDR - June 2009).

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[amrin]

The government decriminalized drug usage because we couldn’t afford to send every drug using Joe to jail to spend the night. It was only because of that. It is still illegal to have more than a set amount of grams of drug with you, in which case you get arrested for intent of distribution. Now, whether the legality of drug usage made people try more drugs or commit more crimes it’s debatable.

 

[mikekle]

It will be 100s of years before drugs are legal in the US, mainly because the major drug cartels want them to remain illegal…this keeps their profits as high as they are, the US has the appetite for mexican drugs, as long as this is true, then it seems the US will ‘cooperate’ and make sure the cartels are able get enough product thru the borders to keep EVERY SINGLE city in the entire country fully stocked at all times! This is what blows me away, I literally cannot believe the cartels get SOOO much into this country every single day, to supply every small town, big city, and everything inbetween!! that is just amazing to me, that must be enough drugs to completely fill an ocean going oil tanker!!

To top it off, this all gets in, POST 9-11…how does this even happen consistently without some kind of collusion between the cartels and US Govt?!

 

[marymary1975]

It will be 100s of years before drugs are legal in the US, mainly because the major drug cartels want them to remain illegal…this keeps their profits as high as they are, t?i!

^^^^ This! Drug cartels want drug trafficking to remain illegal because by remaining illegal drugs become the perfect business: very cheap to make and sales for a very high price. That ks to that the profits from drug sales are huge so no drug cartel wants drug trafficking being legalized. Having said that when people see this “drugs are legal” they get confused because most of the the what it means is that drug consumption under a certain amount is legal. This happens in most countries of the world and in fact in many States is like that. What remains illegal I’m Portugal, Netherlands and most of the world is drug trafficking and drug sale.