What Happened After Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs, from Weed to Heroin

Re:What Happened After Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs, fr... by tlb on Monday September 12, 2016 @08:48AM (#12479210)

Here's a graph of the unemployment rate in Portugal. http://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/charts/portugal-unemployment...

If you made a major public policy change in 2001 and then saw that graph, you might wonder if there was a link.

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Re:What Happened After Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs, fr... by JusticeJuice on Monday September 12, 2016 @09:09AM (#12479319)

Except for the fact that unemployment rose in Europe in general in that time period. Greece and Spain both had peak unemployment at the exact same time as Portugal - despite both Greece and Spain not using Portugals drug policy.

https://www.google.co.nz/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa...

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Re:What Happened After Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs, fr... by jbmorgado on Monday September 12, 2016 @09:20AM (#12479403)

Sure, let's try to pretend there wasn't a huge international financial crisis AND that unemployment didn't climb rampantly in all southern Europe AND that Portugal was actually one of the less affected of those countries, so that you can keep your completely disproved preconceived bias intact.

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Re:What Happened After Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs, fr... by John23832 on Monday September 12, 2016 @09:54AM (#12479665)

Both the EU and the US began a recession in 2001.

So yes, you might wonder. And then your advisors would remind you that the financial world was burning around you.

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