{"id":279813,"date":"2020-10-16T06:14:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T10:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=279813"},"modified":"2020-11-09T14:26:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T19:26:24","slug":"portugals-radical-decision-to-decriminalise-all-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/portugals-radical-decision-to-decriminalise-all-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal&#8217;s radical decision to decriminalise all drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\">RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\">FREEDOM OVER POLICE STATE MENTALITY: \u201cDecriminalization of all drugs for personal use: HIV infections and associated crimes have all dropped as a result.\u201d This should be applied everywhere! Some governments really put the freedom, happiness, and wealth of their citizens before their thrill to use \u201cdictatorial powers\u201d adopting a police state mentality. Same for Sweden which against Covid didn\u2019t impose any lockdown or mask-wearing and which hasn&#8217;t seen more deaths than in previous years with the normal flu\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the &#8217;90s, Portugal was in the grip of a drugs crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The country had one of the worst rates of overdose deaths in Europe, as well as the highest rate of HIV among drug users.<\/p>\n<p>In response to this public health emergency, Portugal&#8217;s government set up a group of experts including doctors, psychiatrists and judges to come up with a nationwide strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The committee proposed a raft of radical measures including the decriminalisation of all drugs for personal use.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001 the new law came into force and overdoses, HIV infections and associated crimes have all dropped as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jo\u00e3o Goul\u00e3o, one of the architects of the drugs policy, spoke to Witness History about the success of the strategy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/stories-54537419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/stories-54537419<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: FREEDOM OVER POLICE STATE MENTALITY: \u201cDecriminalization of all drugs for personal use: HIV infections and associated crimes have all dropped as a result.\u201d This should be applied everywhere! Some governments really put the freedom, happiness, and wealth of their citizens before their thrill to use \u201cdictatorial powers\u201d adopting a police state mentality. Same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":282168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}