[VIDEO] ~ Portugal legalizes ALL personal drug usage, Usage and crime drop instantly

[dilloduck]

getting rid of every law on the books would save trillions. No prisons, no cops, no lawyers--heaven

 

[Douger]

We're not Portugal, if they jumped off a bridge would you follow them down?

That's exactly right.
Portuguese people are allowed to think for themselves and you're a bunch of fucking brainwashed idiots.........you being a poster child.

They did something Murkinz could never do. Try something different and see how it works out.

 

[Oddball]

getting rid of every law on the books would save trillions. No prisons, no cops, no lawyers--heaven

Nobody has said that, either.

Gonna knock it off with the red herrings any time soon?

 

[dilloduck]

getting rid of every law on the books would save trillions. No prisons, no cops, no lawyers--heaven

Nobody has said that, either.

Gonna knock it off with the red herrings any time soon?

It's a simple fact. Decriminalize something and by default there will immediately be less crime.
For awhile.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

You mean all the dealers aren't going to get steady jobs and volunteer at Meals on Wheels ?

Well, they wouldn't be perpetrating drive-by shootings over which neighborhoods have the best floating crap games.

This would be a good thing.

If you honestly believe that all of the criminals who are now engaged in the drug trade would suddenly become law abiding citizens if drugs were made legal, well then, you just aren't very smart.

True!

They'd pursue some other PROFITABLE venture.

Bootlegging cigarettes (to avoid states' taxes) has always been a reliable-option.​

 

[Oddball]

getting rid of every law on the books would save trillions. No prisons, no cops, no lawyers--heaven

Nobody has said that, either.

Gonna knock it off with the red herrings any time soon?

It's a simple fact. Decriminalize something and by default there will immediately be less crime.
For awhile.

There's a difference between less crime and no crime....And Utopia isn't even an option.

All the silly and utterly failed "war" on (some) drugs has accomplished is being price supports for drug gangs and a giant welfare program for federal cops and bureaucrats.

 

[dilloduck]

Well, they wouldn't be perpetrating drive-by shootings over which neighborhoods have the best floating crap games.

This would be a good thing.

If you honestly believe that all of the criminals who are now engaged in the drug trade would suddenly become law abiding citizens if drugs were made legal, well then, you just aren't very smart.

True!

They'd pursue some other PROFITABLE venture.

Bootlegging cigarettes (to avoid states' taxes) has always been a reliable-option.​

Child porn is a good money maker too

 

[dilloduck]

Nobody has said that, either.

Gonna knock it off with the red herrings any time soon?

It's a simple fact. Decriminalize something and by default there will immediately be less crime.
For awhile.

There's a difference between less crime and no crime....And Utopia isn't even an option.

All the silly and utterly failed "war" on (some) drugs has accomplished is being price supports for drug gangs and a giant welfare program for federal cops and bureaucrats.

I'll be glad to debate anyone regarding the legalization of drugs as soon as someone admits that there will be a down side to it. Thinking there would be no negative consequnces to decriminalization is denial.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

They may have no choice.

What if your "industry" dried up and blew away tomorrow?...Would you find something else to do, or just continue doing what you were doing for shits-n-grins?

Never underestimate the "conservatives'" addiction to the Salvation-hu$tle!!

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[topspin]

dilldo you have no argument, prohibition is racism for the racist on the go

 

[HUGGY]

If you honestly believe that all of the criminals who are now engaged in the drug trade would suddenly become law abiding citizens if drugs were made legal, well then, you just aren't very smart.

True!

They'd pursue some other PROFITABLE venture.

Bootlegging cigarettes (to avoid states' taxes) has always been a reliable-option.​

Child porn is a good money maker too

You equate smoking pot to child porn? That is obscene.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

I assume we take the reporting in this clip as unquestionable facts eh? No way it could be a biased source at all.

Ah, yes....the ol' tried-and-true "conservative"-option; suggesting (whatever) data/info is biased.....yet, always forgetting to disprove it (for obvious-reasons). ​

April 26, 2009​

"The question is, does the new policy work? At the time, critics in the poor, socially conservative and largely Catholic nation said decriminalizing drug possession would open the country to "drug tourists" and exacerbate Portugal's drug problem; the country had some of the highest levels of hard-drug use in Europe. But the recently released results of a report commissioned by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, suggest otherwise."

 

[Mr. Shaman]

They may have no choice.

What if your "industry" dried up and blew away tomorrow?...Would you find something else to do, or just continue doing what you were doing for shits-n-grins?

Do you think drug traffickers accustom making big money in an illegal trade would just go straight? or would they just find another high paying illegal activity to engage in?

They'll have no choice in the matter.

OTOH, they could also raise the drug cartel equivalent to the Kennedys.

....Or, bigger-YET....like the Prescott/Bush participation in the opium-bu$ine$$!!​

 

[Toro]

The War on Drugs is an abject failure.

We pay hundreds of billions of dollars to incarcerate people for usage and possession, for policing, for courts, etc.

We also transfer enormous amounts of wealth to criminals who murder and terrorize people, and who undermine and capture whole nations.

Its bizarre and utterly useless.

You cannot stop the laws of supply and demand. You would think conservatives would understand how and why markets work.

 

[HUGGY]

A formal pot smoking occasion. No jacket..no smokie..

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[Old Rocks]

In California, the primary group opposing the legalization of pot, are the present pot growers. Were it legal, then their profits would plummet.

The present drug laws of this nation are totally insane. Time to rethink the whole thing.

 

[topspin]

In California, the primary group opposing the legalization of pot, are the present pot growers. Were it legal, then their profits would plummet.

The present drug laws of this nation are totally insane. Time to rethink the whole thing.

that is bullshit big time, of course they are not happy that the price will crash. Republican, conservatives are the big time opponents. Racist who want to keep minorities in jail and under thier thumbs. Come on Man

 

[Mr. Shaman]

They may have no choice.

What if your "industry" dried up and blew away tomorrow?...Would you find something else to do, or just continue doing what you were doing for shits-n-grins?

Do you think drug traffickers accustom making big money in an illegal trade would just go straight? or would they just find another high paying illegal activity to engage in?

I can guarantee that all the pot dealers would put down their guns. Why? Simple, they can now sell their product to companies like the cigarette companies rather than carve off areas of operation via gang war.

Pot-dealers is a relative-term.

Ya' got Pot-dealers (who've typically bought a quantity that'd be evenly-distributed, between friends, for personal-use), and Pot-dealers who're moving truck-loads.

The ones who're negotiating (for them, and their friends), will simply start growing-their-own....much like their friends....the same as those who make their own beer & wine.

(BTW....you can't guarantee anyone, anything.)​

 

[CurveLight]

If you legalize everything crime will be reduced to zero. Think about.

It's a simple fact. Decriminalize something and by default there will immediately be less crime.
For awhile.

There's a difference between less crime and no crime....And Utopia isn't even an option.

All the silly and utterly failed "war" on (some) drugs has accomplished is being price supports for drug gangs and a giant welfare program for federal cops and bureaucrats.

I'll be glad to debate anyone regarding the legalization of drugs as soon as someone admits that there will be a down side to it. Thinking there would be no negative consequnces to decriminalization is denial.

There is no negative that legitimizes keeping them illegal.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

The point is they will find something else ILLEGAL to do. they won't go straight. So that part of your hope is bogus.

How do you know that?

because once you are a criminal you can never do anything legal again? duh!

Gee....Pat Robertson's always managed!!

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