Portugal: Drug Abuse Down by 50%. Was Bigger Government the Answer?
Question by FrankRep: Portugal: Drug Abuse Down by 50%. Was Bigger Government the Answer?
Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal
Forbes.com | July 5, 2011
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/07/05/ten-years-after-decriminalization-drug-abuse-down-by-half-in-portugal/
Portugal Drug Policy: Decriminalization Works
Business Insider | Jul. 17, 2012
http://www.businessinsider.com/portugal-drug-policy-decriminalization-works-2012-7
Portugal decriminalizes drugs — drug abuse drops 50%
Salon.com | Feb. 20, 2012
http://open.salon.com/blog/richard_rider/2012/02/20/portugal_legalizes_drugs_–_drug_abuse_drops_50
Portugal decriminalized drugs a decade ago. What have we learned?
The New Yorker | Oct. 17, 2011
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/17/111017fa_fact_specter
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Portugal has proven that drug decriminalization actually works better than bigger and bigger anti-drug government programs.
“The Experts” refuse to listen:
Do You Smoke Mary Jane?
Question by epiphany: Do you smoke mary jane?
I want somebody to answer this who knows what they’re talking about through experience, not some stuck up straightedge who thinks they know it all because of how media and ignorant people make marijuana smoking seems like such a horrible thing.
So when I smoke my weed, I feel so different. I feel like everything is okay among my real life anxiety and problems and depression. My new perspective isn’t crazy though, it’s just a different way of looking at my life and the things that could really be there that I’ve never though of before. It’s not like when you’re drunk and just babble, it’s like I truly understand things that I have never thought of before. Is this weed what does? Open your mind up to new creativities and possibilities? Or does it just make you crazy and delusional? I feel like most of society and “drug awareness” programs make it seem like it’s such a terrible thing, but is it really? If you don’t abuse it and let it take control over your life and make you lazy if you let it, but other than that why is it so bad? and the question before i still want answered, is it just opening up your mind to new things or is it f*cking with your mind because it’s a “drug”?
umm people who don’t smoke anything are ignorant to saying it’s for losers because well um idk THEY DONT SMOKE IT. therefore, i find it really hard to understand how you can think you know it all without even doing it before.
letter rebel or whatever your name is: shut the f*ck up. okay thanks.
if i didn’t take time out to read your paragraph then i wouldn’t be expressing myself to tell you to shut up. I meant no offense in asking this question. it’s my own personal musings that i want more people’s opinions on and i got rude answers for it, i wasn’t trying to start anything or offend anyone but when I get very insulting answers what do you want me to do?
and it doesn’t matter but I guarantee you’re a lot older than me and if you really met me in person i hope you wouldn’t be telling a 16 year old girl who is just trying to ask a question to kill myself.
why are you being so rude? i just was just asking a question and you really don’t know much about me to be talking to me in such a degrading way
Bulls-Hit Ranch Settles Suit Over Treatment of Homeless, Drug–addicted Workers
Bulls-Hit Ranch settles suit over treatment of homeless, drug–addicted workers
Filed under: drug addiction treatment centers
A Hastings potato grower has settled a lawsuit against his farm for the treatment of homeless, drug-addicted employees picked up in Jacksonville. Thomas R. Lee, owner of Bulls-Hit Ranch and Farm, agreed to give three workers named in the lawsuit back … Read more on St. Augustine Record
Any Hospice Horror Stories?
Question by getnabargain: Any Hospice horror stories?
Here’s mine.Nurse comes to house acting odd,doesn’t make a lot of sense, Falls asleep.Gives patient inferior meds,approved by hospice.Patient deteriorates at rapid rate.Caregiver recognizes patient has problem immediately after starting new meds,{zoloft}Nurse refuses to stop zoloft, explaining that the patient is simply getting worse on his own.After all he is dying,that is why he is in Hospice.Finally after several weeks,patient stops zoloft on his own,begins to gain weight,feels better.I complain to the local hospice.They now send out a “grief counselor” who is not at all sympathetic,citing the familiar theme,”he’s dying anyway,patient is tossed from program for complaining. By now someone has reported the nurse,who fails a reasonable suspicion drug test for marijuana &?. She is put on a drug abuse program and sent back to work after about 30 days.Grief counselor also fails drug test. Hospice national HQ says no patient entitled to program.Thank you Hospice of Lake &Sumter Florida!