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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by majewsky on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:44AM (#15860082)
That's a strawman. The opposite of "ignore completely that it's done elsewhere" is not "copy the other country's law letter by letter". From how it sounds to me, the grandparent argues for learning from other country's experiences and mistakes.
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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by Para2016 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:48AM (#15860097)
No it's not. Why are you using quotations when he didn't actually write that?
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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by majewsky on Thursday December 07, 2017 @02:52AM (#15868430)
To group multiple words into a single token. Otherwise, the grammar in that sentence would be pretty broken.

Quotation marks are not only for quotes, you know...

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