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In Europe as of 2007, Sweden spends the second highest percentage of GDP, after the Netherlands, on drug control. [12] The UNODC argues that when Sweden reduced spending on education and rehabilitation in the 1990s in a context of higher youth unemployment and declining GDP growth, illicit drug use rose [13] but restoring expenditure from 2002 again sharply decreased drug use as student ...
Variations of drug liberalization include drug legalization, drug relegalization, and drug decriminalization. [1] Proponents of drug liberalization may favor a regulatory regime for the production, marketing, and distribution of some or all currently illegal drugs in a manner analogous to that for alcohol , caffeine and tobacco .
In January 2012 Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos made a plea to the United States and Europe to start a global debate about legalizing drugs. [50] This call was echoed by the Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, who announced his desire to legalize drugs, saying "What I have done is put the issue back on the table." [51]
The proposed federal change could add fresh arguments for supporters of ballot measures seeking to legalize marijuana. As the U.S. government moves toward reclassifying marijuana as a less ...
Legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the greatest mistakes of all time," he told Time. In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for ...
Legalization is safer for our kids. Please, let’s restore the sensible will of the people in this state. We passed recreational cannabis in 2020 with 54% of the vote, but the state Supreme Court ...
Legalization is the process of removing a legal prohibition against something which is currently not legal. Legalization is a process often applied to what are regarded, by those working towards legalization, as victimless crimes , of which one example is the consumption of illegal drugs (see drug legalization ).
The author pointed out that while promoting less punitive drug policies, people on the West Coast became too reluctant to "judge people’s choices," a dynamic that led to the drug crisis spiraling.