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<blockquote data-quote="gst" data-source="post: 93853" data-attributes="member: 373">DAvy, think I mentioned portugal and maybe a link earlier. Have read about 5 articles on Portugals experiment. The report everyone of the article is quoting came from the CATO Institute which is a libertarian think tank group so they like the libertarian ideology of this policy. 5 years in is still earlier to tell the long term effects of such a social experiment. One article I read mentioned drug usage trends in other countries without legalization showing similar results. In history, other countries have tried this and failed miserably. But perhaps new social techniques and advancements allow people to snort coke, shoot heroin and smoke crack without having negative effects on society..............As someone pointed out earlier Portugal is not the US. Whether legalization of all drugs would work like this here............... But the simple fact you are posting this kind of backs up my incrementalization idea. 15 years ago would you have posted links suggesting maybe legalizing all drugs wouldn't be a bad idea?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gst, post: 93853, member: 373"] DAvy, think I mentioned portugal and maybe a link earlier. Have read about 5 articles on Portugals experiment. The report everyone of the article is quoting came from the CATO Institute which is a libertarian think tank group so they like the libertarian ideology of this policy. 5 years in is still earlier to tell the long term effects of such a social experiment. One article I read mentioned drug usage trends in other countries without legalization showing similar results. In history, other countries have tried this and failed miserably. But perhaps new social techniques and advancements allow people to snort coke, shoot heroin and smoke crack without having negative effects on society.............. As someone pointed out earlier Portugal is not the US. Whether legalization of all drugs would work like this here............... But the simple fact you are posting this kind of backs up my incrementalization idea. 15 years ago would you have posted links suggesting maybe legalizing all drugs wouldn't be a bad idea? [/QUOTE]

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