Pax Mongolica (06-20-2021)
Pax Mongolica (06-20-2021)
Mixed Results For Portugal's Great Drug Experiment
When Portugal decriminalized all illegal drugs in 2000, officials hoped to reduce addiction rates and drug-related violence. Today, more users are in rehab, but drug use is on the rise, and reporter Keith O'Brien says the policy has made the problem worse.
https://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/13308...rug-Experiment
AProudLefty (06-20-2021)
Pax Mongolica (06-20-2021)
One thing's for sure, we would have less of a problem with the border crisis had we delegalized, say, cocaine.
Thanks. In Malaysia, the amount regarded as "trafficking" is pretty low for most drugs, and since the penalty is death, you don't exactly have repeat offenders.
To clarify my earlier post, the "encouraging" reference was to your link about Portugal's policy. I don't think Malaysia's focus is on encouraging people to seek treatment. Their approach is to just discourage people from using (or selling) drugs in general.
AProudLefty (06-20-2021)
human smuggling (coyotes) is certainly the cash cow right now but drugs
make a lot up money, and seizures are way up. in some cases 2x already in 6 months then all of last year
And drugs are repeat customers, and easily used to corrupt police etc.
About the only "good thing" is black kids slinging dope to make money off suburban white boys
if you want to look at it that way
some of the corner boys care for their whole family with the money made
EDIT: legal weed is still expensive -the money just goes to the dispensaries and taxes instead of cartels
AProudLefty (06-20-2021)
I'm not sure if I'm able to post links yet, since I tried a few posts ago without being allowed to. What I've been able to find suggests that human trafficking is the second most profitable market for cartels and other criminals. The sources seem to state that drugs the most profitable after all, but the gap doesn't seem very large.
I guess that just means that less drug trade would result in more human trafficking to make up the difference then.
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