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Originally Posted by Locke
Heres a crazy concept...Canada isnt Portugal.
We have this annoying tendency to be geographically, economically and just generally exist in a place that is not Portugal.
"Legalize it ALL!!!!"
Yeah. This is working super well in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and on and on and on.
These bastions of unbridled Liberalism. Its going really well. Their tax rates are through the roof, their crime rates are...almost impressive. If someone did a 'Value for Money' analysis the residents probably wouldnt be all that happy with the answer.
Unless you are a shareholder of 'Camper's Village' and make money selling tents.
Or drugs. If your last name is Sackler then legalize it all! Nothing bad could possibly happen!!! Again....
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You should watch the video. It explains well how the Portugal model works and how why what we are doing is not the Portugal model. Also, Canada is like Portugal in that humans live in Canada, and we have a massive drug addiction problem leading to all the problems cited in the video. Because we have humans addicted to drugs, as the video explains well, the Portugal model works well to solve the problems of humans addicted to drugs.
You see, it’s quite straightforward in fact.
People use drugs.
People get addicted to drugs.
People need state sponsored and enforced programs to rehab from drug addictions.
The Portugal model, again as the video explains, is not just some idiotic free for all like Vancouver is. You should take the hour to watch the video.
Sounds to me like the main culprit of why Canada isn’t doing the Portugal model pretty much can be summed up, once again like all other issues plaguing our country, as ####ty leadership, insanely overblown and unwarranted political ego and refusing to admit when we make wrong decisions, ####ty politics / policy, non-science based, not-fact based reasoning for policy enactment, pretending to look like you’re doing something when you’re not, you know- all the classic behaviour and policy of our current ruling classes across the board.