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Dan Gillmor Jul 10, 2023

Washington Post story casting major doubt on Portugal's drug legalization quotes mostly police and -- as is essentially always the case in drugs coverage -- fails to ask, much less attempt to answer, this question:

Is the cost to society -- law enforcement, racism, corruption, and more -- higher as a result of making drugs illegal than the problems listed in this piece of making them legal?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/once-hailed-for-decriminalizing-drugs-portugal-is-now-having-doubts/ar-AA1dxFl3

The War on (Some) Drugs is worse, but Big Journalism won't tell you that.

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Finley Daniels

@dangillmor At the end of the article the reporter finally bothers to cite some experts instead of cops, and, of course, the actual issue is a lack of funding and a disinterested police force who see drug addicts as lost causes. It's rich conservative neighborhood associations and police who are eager to blame the otherwise, especially pre-pandemic, very successful drug laws.