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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVancouver BC is taking steps to follow Portugal's model.
If this plan makes it past the feds, which is by NO means certain, all drugs held for personal use would be decriminalized. This would create an official policy whereby drugs and addiction(s) would be officially a health care problem, and not a criminal issue.
Wounded Bear
(58,760 posts)marlakay
(11,526 posts)More drug and mental healthcare centers with pot funds.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)I'm in Vancouver so we can compare how effective the different programs are.
marlakay
(11,526 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,946 posts)there was extended coverage of Portugal's plan for dealing with the "War on Drugs" in a magazine (I'm thinking New Yorker). It indeed suggested these steps to work with the "War on Drugs."
Great success - a positive move for the nation.
Guess that would never pass in our "Christian" / RepubliCon country............
bullimiami
(13,111 posts)regulate and control all drugs just like any other commodity.
this is what a thinking society would do.
mitch96
(13,936 posts)m
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)Good for them.
Thunderbeast
(3,425 posts)to fund the critical need for addiction treatment.
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)Meanwhile here in the USA we still can't even smoke a little weed in many states without getting locked-up.