nine years ago portugal decided to decriminalize all trucks off drugs and hard drugs uh...
in order to combat there's substance abuse issues matt okay so that's a really interesting
way to handle it well look if they're decriminalizing and they already had really grosses
you must have been it's right now you tell me is out of control right
as was the decriminalizing whatever's in paper taggants actually decreased in fact
i know it's not surprising to us that is surprising to a lot of other people
especially those who are for the war on drugs
but out what's really interesting is that they totally shifted their policy from focusing
on uh... people who use drugs as criminals and treating them as people who have an illness
that need help
so uh...
new research shows that out there was a sixty three percent increase and the number of portuguese
drug users who went into treatment
to get better to get better and that might have contributed to why they have less drug
use is in the country now wide overall drug raid has gone down
because they're getting treatment is sitting in their ass thrown in jail and by the way
taxpayers paying a lot of money to keep them in jail so that's also freed up some money
for the government as well are for the more four hundred ninety nine percent increase
and them out of drugs seized
which is really interesting that's because look they did decriminalize drug youths
however they did not decriminalize uh... selling drugs illegally so if you are trying to euler
law enforcement is now focusing on catching your aps they're not focusing on people who
are addicted to drugs cc i didn't expect that to be honest with them right
but five-fold increase because
wasting their time on the users anymore and that's part of the reason why
but when he got a metal is even more fascinating all my god the netherlands at super interesting
and i did not expect this at all
sold their drug policy actually became even more radical
they had a huge problem with people who were allied doing heroin
so dutch officials like how can we combat this problem
why don't we have uh... the government
ginza these users heroin for free
so all deciding if you want to use heroin uh... you know all you gotta do is i'd go
to the sudden our clinic
some and
state-sponsored clinic yet still give you heroin for free
that that the thing that happened is the government giving people heroin for free made heroin
so want cool that people were not interested doing heroin anymore
heroin values
wet signifi lead out
no healed the particulars
over and over again remember when we talk about and that you say a legalize pot i say
the legalized everything right
and the reason is it does it make people use it more as porch was seen as though it was
a scene it makes people use it last sat's and let me just clarify one thing they weren't
giving people heroine because they wanted people to get addicted to heroin
those people who were already addicted to heroin to would go and get it from these clinics
because they had government officials there who would be you know basically keep an eye
on them and make sure that they're not sharing needles they're not spreading diseases so
it helps combat that problem as well less people die of overdose aaa less people so
spread disease
less people
do harwich now here's a thing like an old ace there was some cachet to some people in
doing heroin right but now
you're not gonna buy from a drug dealer right because why would you buy textfree right
but when you go to clinic to get it gets
book elise called real-world and that kids away from being that it's cool to be a suburban
cool exactly work eight wherein are we going to learn the lesson making it illegal doesn't
make it any better it makes it worse
an ad another really interesting action that happen in portugal is out when they decriminalize
both softer on some hard drugs
they stopped absolutely no increase in uh... hard drug use is usage in fact they side decrease
with soft drugs maybe people are more willing to experiment with that i'm talking about
marijuana but you still even given that cn decrease in amount of he's because its
like i said it's on cool at that point the government is giving it out
no and ifs or buts the proof of his
incontrovertible
they you do not harm the country by legalizing drugs you uh... actually decreased regu siege
you decrease the amount of taxes that we pay
to keep people in jail for no good reason
you decrease the amount of disease you decrease the amount of crime
and and even more important you can't people rejected the right
obtained and and the treatment that they need
rather than throwing them in jail where their problem is going to just get worse one last
thing if your conservative
you don't you shouldn't want big government telling you what you can
i can't do right in his opening weekend tax the drugs and then that helps us with our
deficit prox he whether you're a libertarian a conservative or liberal you should agree
with this and the facts are completely on our side
we gotta change momentum in this country on this
the drug wars philosophy is killing the country's around us
and it makes no sense that it's counterproductive
i gotta say and of this we should be the cops that stop