Under the Portuguese plan, penalties for people caught dealing and trafficking drugs are unchanged; dealers are still jailed and subjected to fines depending on the crime. But people caught using or possessing small amounts—defined as the amount needed for 10 days of personal use—are brought before what's known as a "Dissuasion Commission," an administrative body created by the 2001 law.
No doubt most junkies in this country would consider jail preferable.
Still, be careful what you ask for, although the death rate is down, that is just for "street deaths", not "total deaths" within the population of dopers and junkies.
The writer seems to have a reason for not telling us. I fear the worst.
For the past two weeks, I’ve been on a Grand Jury indicting literally dozens of people with felonies for possession of a gram or less of coke or crack or whatever.
Over and over and over again.
I also live off and on in Sweden. Very few drug issues there. Also lax penalties for drugs and a lot of social support for druggies.
I am a law and order guy to the max but the present methods of eradication are not working. A different method needs to be created. Even if it is legalization.
Drug dealers should be hung the slow way by all of their neighbors. Drug addicts love their slavery, so they should be put in work camps.
Call me crazy but I could care less if you get die or contract HIV or any other disease by doing drugs. Waste of taxpayer money to care for these fools.