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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by rayiner on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @10:41AM (#38613606)
I don’t know about Portugal. But Amsterdam’s drug toleration (it’s still illegal mind you) happens against a background of pretty intense anti-drug culture. As that culture has become more permissive, drug policy has become more punitive: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/681551
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