Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. Most people knew someone affected by the lethal drug. Just two decades later, the country has one of the …
Plot twist: Portugal still has a drug problem and a drug war.
For sure. Doubt the reason for anyone not doing heroine is a fear of going to jail. Hope to see this in Canada
Honestly, cocaine is worse than heroin.
As a recovering addict the war on drugs needs to be dealt with. The war is not working obviously. We fight against illegal drugs. While big pharma produces oxy, Ritalin and massive amounts of antidepressants and other harmful drugs. They pump them into society in the most corrupt way possible. That is disgusting to me. Most rehabs in America you go to get off illegal drugs and come out on fifty destructive legal drugs that harm you as much as the drug you were trying to get off of. I don’t know the answer but what is going on is not working. Giving someone a legal record that destroys someone’s live is not going tanks the situation better.
How much did the program cost?? Why do they not tell you this on any of these videos
The answer to the end of drugs in not a war on drugs, but a war on addictions. That is why the United States will never, ever solve the problem. The problem is not that we don't have the resources, it is that we don't have politicians who want to make a change and pass the laws to make change. That is why we have an opioid crisis. That is why people are dying.
Mexicans don't understand how a similar strategy could weaken cartels. However, it might not happen because the people who run these trauma-creating businesses are in their government and it would be counterproductive for their egocentrical purposes to legalize all drugs. The lost lives of thousands each year, in cartel combats, is simply not enough for the Mexicans to legalize all drugs.
Their trams are high on something
Tell people not to look through a hole in the wall and they'll start queuing to look through it. Are people just awkward arseholes or what?
Check out those tilting trolly cars.
Ironically Portugal's incarceration rate has gone up 15% in the last 8 years. According to wiki.
LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS
I hope that same can happen in Punjab India
Why common sense things in Europe or any country outside U.S aren't done in U.S= $$$
portugese are very wise
Singapore method is d best
Zero people who viewed this forwarded this to their elected representatives
3:07 WTF was that?!?! Are those trams high on drugs?!? Lmao
Wtf I came back from Lisbon and drug dealers are on every corner in the center of the city. I was offered cocaine a lot of times
Seattle Washington is trying this decriminalization thing and it is NOT working. It's terrible there.
The story about Portugal having decriminalized all drugs is a myth. For users, maybe. But the entire drug market is – just like anywhere else – illegal. This means criminal groups still supply the population with drugs, the police still fight them. And also – a tribunal for drug users is also not fair. Most drug users don't need any help.
Wait you're telling me that education and rehabilitation are great ways to solve the drug problem? Weird, the USA tried prohibition and its been going great… ly terrible and the current institution has no prospects of changing their stance.
Crime should only be those acts that violates the persons liberty, life and property. Use of drugs does not by any stretch of the imagination violate any of these rights.
DuPont's war on the world must end! America and Cronies stop licking their arseholes!!
President Rodrigo Duterte has left the group
Ended the war on drugs doesn't mean it won the war… but surrender to drug cartels. Portugal it's a gateway to drugs spread over Europe…..
Nobody cares about you drug addicts !! Fuck you all!!
At 2:53 A graph and the narrator say that Portugal has only a small fraction, but only points to a numerator… How does a numerator equal a fraction? The proper fraction should be drug deaths per capita.
So what you are saying is that it's not illegal to do drugs in Portugal?
When will the rest of us learn
As a Brazilian (or a human being really) I'm really proud of Portugal's avant-garde decision.
they always offer temporary tax breaks why don't we offer a five-year legalization and see what happens or maybe even a 10-year why not experiment with some of these ideas or do one half of the country. We need to start experimenting with some of these ideas we have 50 states we could divide some of the drug laws in part of the country and see what happens
Isn't killing drug users cheaper? Morals aside of course
The war on drugs is over. Result: total drug victory.
I dont believe this worked
drug crime happens: legalise drugs, numbers go down. issue resolves
gun violence happens: BAN GUNS, MAKE ILLEGAL GET RID OF THEM
when u make drugs legal u kill the value and and destroy business… destroy the business no would bother pedalling it.
They have less drug related deaths because of the invention of NARCAN not because of less drug use due to legalization…. So their drug problem for worse…they have more people in rehab because they have more drug users. You can't just legalize something like heroine that is extremely addictive and expect things to get better
Ban all drugs. You shouldn’t be lax on those things.
This is the only way to solve this problem: legalize, treat and teach. No endless money pits for the war against it and massive violence from the cartels. It will still take lives but a lot less.
Will never happen here in the US. There's too much money for lawyers and private prisons to make off those addicted to drugs. Sad that we're at this point, but look at the bozo we have for a president. Enough said.
People here can get drugs so easily that i know people who sell lsd for 1 euro.
Plot twist: Portugal still has a drug problem and a drug war.
For sure. Doubt the reason for anyone not doing heroine is a fear of going to jail. Hope to see this in Canada
Honestly, cocaine is worse than heroin.
As a recovering addict the war on drugs needs to be dealt with. The war is not working obviously. We fight against illegal drugs. While big pharma produces oxy, Ritalin and massive amounts of antidepressants and other harmful drugs. They pump them into society in the most corrupt way possible. That is disgusting to me. Most rehabs in America you go to get off illegal drugs and come out on fifty destructive legal drugs that harm you as much as the drug you were trying to get off of. I don’t know the answer but what is going on is not working. Giving someone a legal record that destroys someone’s live is not going tanks the situation better.
How much did the program cost?? Why do they not tell you this on any of these videos
The answer to the end of drugs in not a war on drugs, but a war on addictions. That is why the United States will never, ever solve the problem. The problem is not that we don't have the resources, it is that we don't have politicians who want to make a change and pass the laws to make change. That is why we have an opioid crisis. That is why people are dying.
Mexicans don't understand how a similar strategy could weaken cartels. However, it might not happen because the people who run these trauma-creating businesses are in their government and it would be counterproductive for their egocentrical purposes to legalize all drugs.
The lost lives of thousands each year, in cartel combats, is simply not enough for the Mexicans to legalize all drugs.
Their trams are high on something
Tell people not to look through a hole in the wall and they'll start queuing to look through it. Are people just awkward arseholes or what?
Check out those tilting trolly cars.
Ironically Portugal's incarceration rate has gone up 15% in the last 8 years. According to wiki.
LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS
I hope that same can happen in Punjab India
Why common sense things in Europe or any country outside U.S aren't done in U.S= $$$
portugese are very wise
Singapore method is d best
Zero people who viewed this forwarded this to their elected representatives
3:07 WTF was that?!?! Are those trams high on drugs?!? Lmao
Wtf I came back from Lisbon and drug dealers are on every corner in the center of the city. I was offered cocaine a lot of times
Seattle Washington is trying this decriminalization thing and it is NOT working. It's terrible there.
The story about Portugal having decriminalized all drugs is a myth. For users, maybe. But the entire drug market is – just like anywhere else – illegal. This means criminal groups still supply the population with drugs, the police still fight them. And also – a tribunal for drug users is also not fair. Most drug users don't need any help.
Wait you're telling me that education and rehabilitation are great ways to solve the drug problem? Weird, the USA tried prohibition and its been going great… ly terrible and the current institution has no prospects of changing their stance.
Crime should only be those acts that violates the persons liberty, life and property. Use of drugs does not by any stretch of the imagination violate any of these rights.
DuPont's war on the world must end! America and Cronies stop licking their arseholes!!
President Rodrigo Duterte has left the group
Ended the war on drugs doesn't mean it won the war… but surrender to drug cartels. Portugal it's a gateway to drugs spread over Europe…..
Nobody cares about you drug addicts !! Fuck you all!!
At 2:53 A graph and the narrator say that Portugal has only a small fraction, but only points to a numerator… How does a numerator equal a fraction? The proper fraction should be drug deaths per capita.
So what you are saying is that it's not illegal to do drugs in Portugal?
When will the rest of us learn
As a Brazilian (or a human being really) I'm really proud of Portugal's avant-garde decision.
they always offer temporary tax breaks why don't we offer a five-year legalization and see what happens or maybe even a 10-year why not experiment with some of these ideas or do one half of the country. We need to start experimenting with some of these ideas we have 50 states we could divide some of the drug laws in part of the country and see what happens
Isn't killing drug users cheaper? Morals aside of course
The war on drugs is over. Result: total drug victory.
I dont believe this worked
drug crime happens: legalise drugs, numbers go down. issue resolves
gun violence happens: BAN GUNS, MAKE ILLEGAL GET RID OF THEM
when u make drugs legal u kill the value and and destroy business…
destroy the business no would bother pedalling it.
They have less drug related deaths because of the invention of NARCAN not because of less drug use due to legalization…. So their drug problem for worse…they have more people in rehab because they have more drug users. You can't just legalize something like heroine that is extremely addictive and expect things to get better
Ban all drugs. You shouldn’t be lax on those things.
This is the only way to solve this problem: legalize, treat and teach. No endless money pits for the war against it and massive violence from the cartels. It will still take lives but a lot less.
Will never happen here in the US. There's too much money for lawyers and private prisons to make off those addicted to drugs. Sad that we're at this point, but look at the bozo we have for a president. Enough said.
People here can get drugs so easily that i know people who sell lsd for 1 euro.