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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it

Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime
by Susana Ferreira

[ You might know this is the model to which finally has entered into the United States in Oregon ]

Can you read this REALLY and NOT AVOID THE FACTS?

Headlines in the local press raised the alarm
about overdose deaths and rising crime. The rate of HIV infection in
Portugal became the highest in the European Union. Pereira recalled
desperate patients and families beating a path to his door, terrified,
bewildered, begging for help. “I got involved,” he said, “only because I
was ignorant.”In truth, there was a lot of ignorance back then. Forty years of authoritarian rule under the regime established by António Salazar in 1933 had suppressed
education, weakened institutions and lowered the school-leaving age, in a
strategy intended to keep the population docile. The country was closed
to the outside world; people missed out on the experimentation and
mind-expanding culture of the 1960s.

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The opioid crisis soon stabilised, and the ensuing years saw dramatic
drops in problematic drug use, HIV and hepatitis infection rates,
overdose deaths, drug-related crime and incarceration rates.

HIV infection plummeted from an all-time high in 2000 of 104.2 new cases per
million to 4.2 cases per million in 2015. The data behind these changes
has been studied and cited as evidence by harm-reduction movements
around the globe. It’s misleading, however, to credit these positive
results entirely to a change in law.

To be fair, everything starts with understanding how an underground culture based into secrets is not a good model to have a foundation of intelligence from. When we have to lie to each other, our moral standings are fucked up, we have to keep things from our parents, even though we are actually doing fine. Now she is not, because of the stigma that he now has to endure for the rest of her life on matter that the actual more harmful effect onto her life is that she is captured by a law and system that is not appropriate to punish for the activity of a more neutral harm. The system is fear based and causes us as a collective to fear the police and to fear to get help when if we are indeed finding ourselves to be showing a problematic use. So, we don't get help when if we did more quickly -- we would be a better off culture and a better of society.

Do you agree?

@3:33 [ Interesting - The Meaning of "333" ]

THAT IS THE CRAZY THING, HE SAID HE WAS COMPLETELY SHOCKED
WHEN HE LEARNED OF THIS. HE SAID HE THOUGHT SHE WAS DOING GREAT.

SHE HAD A GOOD GOVERNMENT JOB, THREE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN, AND
NO PRIOR RECORD. HE SAID TO ME THAT YOU NEVER IMAGINE [ ? ]

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She probably was doing great. I don't know her personally. Although she was high up in the end of the drug culture, there is much evidence that it is really an impractical and illogical and irrational position that we demonize drugs as "highly addictive" when they are not.

In 2014,

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addiction-in-society/201404/normalizing-drug-use

Normalizing Drug Use
Drug use does not become and remain addictive more often than other involvements
Posted April 25, 2014

Carl shows that the supposedly inevitable negative effects of methamphetamines are overstated—as is obvious from their sharing a chemical structure with Adderall. As for crack, Carl describes in High Price his upbringing in a Miami ghetto prior to the crack epidemic—and how the drug had no substantial effect on the social pathology that predated the drug's appearance.

By and large, people don't accept Bruce's, Carl's, and my idea that drug
responses fall in the range of normal human experiences, or my idea of
the equivalency of drug and behavioral addictions (which is now the
American Psychiatric Association's official position). (Please don't answer, "You don't mean physiologically addictive." See The Meaning of Addiction.) Americans carry too much cultural baggage to allow those ideas in. Instead, we think drugs—especially narcotics, and most especially heroin, followed by cocaine, crack and meth—are "truly" addictive. In fact, did you know cocaine was only declared addictive in the 1980s, after a century and more of experience with the drug?

[ Now, if want to have a conversation about this -- I am open to discussion - but to frankly censor out this logic because it does not meet to your approval is wrong - and goes to the continued AGNOTOLOGY of the ignorance of these matters.

And if the opinion of the mental psychology of it was just a passing by mistaken opinion, it would not have reappeared again in 2017.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addiction-in-society/201701/normalizing-drug-use

Normalizing Drug Use
America's focus is on eliminating drug use—we need to regulate and manage it
Posted January 17, 2017

We have entered an era in which drug use is widespread, almost
ubiquitous, and yet at the same it is viewed as unmanageable and
uncontrollable. We need instead to accept and to regulate drug use.

Several recent key writings in the popular and academic press point to the following developments:

We are in a pharmacological era when drug use, both approved and unapproved, is widespread, almost universal.
We conceptualize drugs as invariant causes of behavior and resulting social dysfunction.
We respond to this situation by social and legal regulation, on the one hand, and medical regulation on the other.
Instead, we need to accept drug use as socially and psychologically regulatable behavior to be incorporated into modern life.


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But let us not focus exactly on Drugs,.

Even though Meth is pretty much a chemical that can have a prescription by a doctor..

Google [ is meth a prescribed drug" ]

Methamphetamine has been classified by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II stimulant, which makes it legally available only through a nonrefillable prescription.Oct 16, 2019
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Now, if that is the case, and the daughter is being arrested and charged for something that is not what the law enforcement is representing as a dangerous chemistry to our human bodies..... Why anyone has an issue with the drug as for as addition is concerned.

Let us go back to the 2014 article.

That is so unlike dangerous drugs to which everyone rapidly becomes permanently addicted!

Not exactly. Here are the lifetime use figures for heroin (2.6 percent), cocaine (18 percent), crack (5 percent), and meth (6 percent):

Here are the current abusers/addicts
with these drugs: heroin (0.1 percent), cocaine (0.4 percent), crack
(not listed), meth (only stimulants listed = 0.2 percent). So, for
heroin, that's four percent of ever users who are addicted, and for
cocaine about the same as for marijuana (around 2 percent). While meth
and crack can't be calculated, the figure is clearly a small minority
(less than 10 percent).

What are we to make of that? According to government surveys, people
rarely find even the most addictive, dangerous drugs to be, well,
addictive and dangerous. Please don't answer, "People don't tell the
truth in government surveys." In their comprehensive follow-up of
Vietnam vets addicted to heroin in Asia, Lee Robins and her colleagues
found that users of heroin stateside were no more likely to consume that
drug compulsively than were users of other illicit drugs.

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But what does have a harmful effect that has interdependent correlation on this subject as whether or not something should be criminalized as it stands or decriminalized. You make your decisions. I know where I stand on this issue as a person living with HIV. I was not infected by the mechanics of drug culture. My story is online here and is attributed to this URL because Barack Obama signed both the Re-authorization of the Ryan White Care Act as well as he signed the UN Convention for the Rights of Persons With Disabilities which seem to be in a lock down conflict of back burning interests. The story of how I became infected with HIV can be found he [ http://barackobama.fuckeduphuman.net/ ]

So lets focus on a side problem of HIV Infection with intravenous drug users, to which meth would be one of those drugs that is recreational used in this way.

Can anybody talk the truth? When I attempt to comment on Youtube, my comments are wiped out basically instantly - like a bot traveling around --- and nullifying my words on the net.