Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by flipp3r on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:41AM (#15860063)

According to Wikipedia's "Firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year" America is at 10.54, compared to countries like Finland and Switzerland which are at 3.5-ish, it is very high. You can however see America's cause of the gun problem clearly, but you're not allowed to say it out loud; https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Reeves-... You could call it "culture" which the other countries do not have.

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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by lr4444lr on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:38AM (#15860617)

Does that number control for the gun-related suicides? Obviously that is not what people mean when they talk about gun violence in the US.

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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by flipp3r on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:28AM (#15860287)

America still has about a 4x homicide rate compared to my examples Finland and Switzerland. This is not much different from the gun violence rates per country (&race) You can even pull out approximately the same graph for homicides(Actually, here you go; https://www.theatlas.com/charts/E1pEnFs7e ). Did you honestly believe a country can have triple the gun violence of every other western country, but at the same time get away with a low homicide rate?

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