Decriminalization in Portugal

by Will on January 20, 2011

Here’s a good article from The Boston Globe on the drug trade and Portugal’s experiment in drug decriminalization. This nugget about Nixon’s drug policy commission is pretty funny:

The modern debate over the decriminalization of drugs in the United States can be traced to the spring of 1972. That March, a commission appointed by President Nixon to review America’s drug policy and led by former Pennsylvania governor Richard P. Shafer made a shocking recommendation: Marijuana should be decriminalized . . . Nixon was livid.

Tagged as: drugs, Portugal

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{ 2 comments }

1 North January 20, 2011 at 10:12 am

Good ol tricky Dick. Was he good for anything? Well we can give him China I guess.

2 Jaybird January 20, 2011 at 10:28 am

Fishing Quakers.

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