Camino por recorrer Ecuador!
Only ignoramuses on this subject and/or idiots think this a bad idea...which unfortunately is probably most people.
It is none of the state's business what sane, consenting adults do in private or ingest into their bodies.
Considering that drug use and drug crime have gone up since Portugal legalized them, its the idiots that think legalization is a solution to any problem
Thats a naive and shot sided way to look at it. The majority of drug addicts especially the hard drugs cant hold jobs and must commit society harming crimes to continue their addiction
Considering that drug use and drug crime have gone up since Portugal legalized them, its the idiots that think legalization is a solution to any problem
Considering that drug use and drug crime have gone up since Portugal legalized them, its the idiots that think legalization is a solution to any problem
Thats a naive and shot sided way to look at it. The majority of drug addicts especially the hard drugs cant hold jobs and must commit society harming crimes to continue their addiction
Sources?
Cocaine use also increased in Portugal over the 2001-2007 period, from 0.3% to 0.6%, reflecting the growing importance of Portugal as a cocaine transit country between South America, Western Africa and continental Europe in the last few years
Portugal suddenly had the sixth-highest cocaine seizure total in the world. The number of murders increased 40% during this same period of time
Portugal faces a worrying deterioration of the drug situation. The facts prove "With 219 deaths from 'overdose' per year, Portugal has one of the worst results, with one death every two days. Along with Greece, Austria and Finland, Portugal registered an increase of deaths by more than 30% in 2005 " and " Portugal remains the country with the highest increase of AIDS as a result of injecting drugs (85 new cases per million residents in 2005, when the majority of countries do not surpass 5 cases per million). Portugal is the only country that recorded a recent increase, with 36 new cases estimated per million in 2005 when in 2004 only 30 were registered" (European Observatory for Drugs and Drug Addiction 2007). The European report also confirmed that in 2006, Portugal had registered 703 new cases of SIDA, which corresponds to a rate eight times higher than the European average!
The decriminalization of drugs in Portugal did not in any way decrease levels of consumption. On the contrary, "the consumption of drugs in Portugal increased by 4.2% - the percentage of people who have experimented with drugs at least once in their lifetime increased from 7.8% in 2001 to 12% in 2007 (IDT-Institute for Drugs and Drug Addiction Portuguese, 2008).
"The Portuguese society has improved considerably since then. The number of drug-related deaths has decreased along with the number of juvenile drug addicts, as well as the number of people doing drugs in general. Infectious diseases spread through needles and dirty drug practices have declined rapidly in Portugal since the end of drug prohibition. Many prisons have even shut down because there is not enough crime."
Incorrect.Considering that drug use and drug crime have gone up since Portugal legalized them, its the idiots that think legalization is a solution to any problem
Thats a naive and shot sided way to look at it. The majority of drug addicts especially the hard drugs cant hold jobs and must commit society harming crimes to continue their addiction
Considering that drug use and drug crime have gone up since Portugal legalized them, its the idiots that think legalization is a solution to any problem
Thats a naive and shot sided way to look at it. The majority of drug addicts especially the hard drugs cant hold jobs and must commit society harming crimes to continue their addiction
Decriminalization or legalization? The two are vastly different and will produce different results.
Not to worry, Big Pharma will find a way to make a profit....Ecuador to legalize all drugs - from marijuana to heroine
< Ecuador to legalize all drugs - from marijuana to heroine - English pravda.ru >
"In Ecuador is expected to become the second country in the world and the first in the Western hemisphere to legalize all drugs. With new legislation to be approved, Ecuador is said to legalize drugs from marijuana to cocaine. Even heroine is expected to become legal in the country. Portugal became the first country in the world to have ended the drug war within its borders in 2001. The Portuguese society has improved considerably since then. The number of drug-related deaths has decreased along with the number of juvenile drug addicts, as well as the number of people doing drugs in general. Infectious diseases spread through needles and dirty drug practices have declined rapidly in Portugal since the end of drug prohibition. Many prisons have even shut down because there is not enough crime.Ecuador's new bill would set a new example of a country without drug prohibition for Latin America."
How many people know about the success in Portugal?
This sounds sensible to me.
Would it be tough on Big Pharma?
No more Drug War, but where would arms manufacturers sell their product?
I'll have to ask my sister about this. She is an English professor at a university in Qito. Her views may vary a bit from mine as we are polar opposites. She has spent the last 30 years on college campii, and is an honest to god socialist (buddhist vegan). To be fair, loosening up some of their drug laws is far overdue. Some OTC drugs we have here (such as ibuprofen) are script only.
The government of Equador is interesting too. In the past few years they have opened up large areas of oil exploration in the Amazon rainforest against the will of the people (there was a referendum vote). The drilling resulted in displacing at least 2 indigenous groups of people, and resulted in a huge oil spill that threatens the entire region. Before that, Equador had floated an idea to the UN that would collect monies from other more developed counties (that would be us, carbon offsets anyone?) and pay Equador to NOT drill. Yup. So the government of Equador extorted the rest of the world to NOT drill, then decided to do it anyway and f$%^ed it all up. So now they want to legalize drugs? What is the hope here, a stoned populace is a compliant populace?
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