Portugal is the country that decriminalized drugs in their country. We all want to know what led Portugal to start the decriminalization of drugs, according to the article Portugal’s Experiment “ it all started during the mid-twentieth century, when Portugal experienced fifty years of military dictatorship, and when leftist democratic was reestablished in 1974”. Portugal is and still is the only European Union state explicitly to decriminalize drug usage. Portugal’s decriminalization came about when their country was in a crisis. It is stated that over twenty five years, there were a surge in the drug that Portugal had, they had drug abuse, some were an addict, there were some that overdose from the drug and eventually a very substantial prevalence
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This was being labeled by Richard Nixon as “public enemy No.1” and the offensive has not stopped since then. Portugal has taught the United States a lot when they started the decriminalization of drugs back in 2001. It is said that for many years the United States have been criticized for it punitive policy. Beginning in 2008 the World Health Organization released a statement commenting on the U.S drug policy. The whole “War on Drugs” never reached it potential, it failed after the policy was turned into possession and use accounts for limited variation in nation-level rates of drug use. On March of 2012 U.S Vice President Joe Biden made a statement saying that they have no intentions on changing the policy of drugs, but he did say that this statement was worth …show more content…
Mississippi has not decided if they wanted to decriminalize drugs just yet but Missouri decriminalization of drugs law will take effect January 1, 2017. There are also states that still classify marijuana possession offences as criminal misdemeanors, but the offenses do not carry any threat of jail time. Since then they have had a major increase on how many people were treated for drugs. The numbers went from 23,600 to 38,000 from the years of 1998 to 2011. This is a remarkable thing because that is letting us know that people who has had a drug addiction are not out there trying to get thing right and they are trying to get their life on
This was being labeled by Richard Nixon as “public enemy No.1” and the offensive has not stopped since then. Portugal has taught the United States a lot when they started the decriminalization of drugs back in 2001. It is said that for many years the United States have been criticized for it punitive policy. Beginning in 2008 the World Health Organization released a statement commenting on the U.S drug policy. The whole “War on Drugs” never reached it potential, it failed after the policy was turned into possession and use accounts for limited variation in nation-level rates of drug use. On March of 2012 U.S Vice President Joe Biden made a statement saying that they have no intentions on changing the policy of drugs, but he did say that this statement was worth …show more content…
Mississippi has not decided if they wanted to decriminalize drugs just yet but Missouri decriminalization of drugs law will take effect January 1, 2017. There are also states that still classify marijuana possession offences as criminal misdemeanors, but the offenses do not carry any threat of jail time. Since then they have had a major increase on how many people were treated for drugs. The numbers went from 23,600 to 38,000 from the years of 1998 to 2011. This is a remarkable thing because that is letting us know that people who has had a drug addiction are not out there trying to get thing right and they are trying to get their life on