we have been are you on the other church
two d criminalize notches marijuana i'm
personally miss a neutralized all trucks
that everybody here the staff has
different opinions everybody agrees over
although we should be penalized
marijuana but different opinions on
drugs i said do mall because i i
as long as you make them illegal is
india black market this can be gangs
ford it doesn't help
it turns out of course that one country
at least
tried this
and back in two thousand and one
portugal decriminalized all trucks now
we're talking about the force he's
experiment before a minute seeing that
it was going well with the nuns well a
new report is out after eleven years of
this experiment i was a gone so far
while the numbers are and and they are
astounding
now we were told by all the fear mongers
my got a few decriminalizing then in the
rope drug use is gonna run rampant well
what about all these poor kids who
suffered from drug abuse and their
families and several so you're going to
happen dot gov
but one status that
and we said hey listen to be
decriminalizing doesn't necessarily mean
that numbers in to get worse they might
even get better
i think they what
so what happened in portugal
they got better but they didn't just get
a little better
much better
first of all
you know previous ten years
the number of drug attics being treated
has dropped biet half
import
they cut the rate by fifty percent
what happen i thought i was closer to a
this far less drug addicts anything
that's an impressive number
drug-related diseases including a season
overdoses
had been reduced by an even greater
numbers
we know that those numbers might be
better if the government didn't
criminalize it in intrigued as some sort
of
thing they should be locked up for free
usage right
and but it turns out the even the
diction rates have gone down
dramatically and now the drug usage rate
in portugal is among the lowest in the
e_u_
it was a stunning success
now the question for the rest of the
world of pertaining to the united states
of america is are we all learn from
facts
these people tried it
it worked decriminalization works you
get last drug addicts not more
are we going to be as usual stubborn in
senate through quite different europe
delays in new york
well i will be we're gonna get and there
which used to be stupid
that we get everything we deserve
but i think we should actually listened
the facts
and it just our strategy the war on
drugs is a horrible abysmal failure this
time it and it it's time to
decriminalizing drugs
so that we have less gang warfare less
killing less people locked up for in a
recent and actually less traumatic
young turks
