Workers in Portugal could see healthier work-life balance under new labour laws

Re:Workers in Portugal could see healthier work-life balance... by m0zg on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:36PM (#29153887)

Another thing (besides high taxes and low wages) US leftists would like to copy from Portugal is complete legalization of all drugs, including the hard/addictive ones. I'd be curious to know from a local how well that worked (if at all) over the extended period of time.

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Re:Workers in Portugal could see healthier work-life balance... by libertine on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @05:52AM (#29160021)

We didn't legalize drugs, we decriminalized them - basically a drug addict wasn't considered a criminal, but someone who's sick and needs help.

It worked wonders, we had a heroin epidemic that vanished in the course of 10-15 years. There are still addicts of course, but they're being followed by doctors, offered replacement drugs, etc.

Just to contrast: you used to see people injecting themselves on their dicks in the street all over Lisbon, yet more prevalent in some neighborhoods. Such sights are long gone.

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Re:Workers in Portugal could see healthier work-life balance... by m0zg on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:48PM (#29167951)

> injecting themselves on their dicks in the street all over Lisbon

That's how it is today in San Francisco and a few other places. Are they actually gone, or are they just injecting themselves in the dick at a taxpayer funded injection site?

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