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Re:Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment i... by esturk on Saturday December 16, 2017 @09:47PM (#15943729)
SK also has one of the highest suicide rates (2nd) in the world. There's a confounding effect between people who wants release that can get drugs for it and those that can't which results in suicide.
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Re:Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment i... by ficklepickle on Saturday December 16, 2017 @10:20PM (#15943864)
I feel like in that culture, the drug of choice is alcohol. A lot of people forget that alcohol is a drug, just one that most human societies have deemed acceptable.
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Re:Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment i... by codedokode on Sunday December 17, 2017 @01:02AM (#15944431)
According to Wikipedia [1] it is on the 10th place, not 2nd.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

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