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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Not in my experience it hasn't and in fact alcohol and drug abuse go hand in hand. Making them both legal and widely available simply increases people's chances of ruining their life via one, the other, or both.
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Studies have shown in countries who have decriminalized it have shown a decrease in use, including children. Portugal and Netherlands have some of the lowest marijuana user rates in Europe.
People who ruin their lives over marijuana would have found something else to ruin their lives with. It has nothing to do with the drug of choice, it's about the personality of the person.
Money is being wasted chasing and locking people up when it could be better spent helping the people who need it. In Portugal they went from locking up 100,000 people a year for drugs, to now being able to direct that to helping the 40,000 people with problems from drugs. Oh and that 40,000 has dropped in half in the last decade they have decriminalized drugs.