Portugal is now experiencing the effects of a more libertarian policy with respect to drugs possesion. In 2001 they decriminalize the use of several kinds of ilicit drugs (while still punishing dealing and trafficking drugs).
The results are very interesting:
Five years later, the number of deaths from street drug overdoses dropped from around 400 to [...]
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My name is Dany Bahar. I am currently an MPA/ID student at Harvard Kennedy School of Government (class of 2010), and an alumni of the MA in Economics program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem... 