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Share link: Portugal - See also: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization. See: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation.
Portugal decriminalized possession of drugs in 2001. Google search: Portugal decriminalization. See also: Wikipedia: Drug policy of Portugal and Wikipedia: Healthcare in Portugal and Wikipedia: Health in Portugal. See: Wikipedia: Harm reduction.
There were around 96,800 US drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period ending June 30, 2024, at a rate of 264 deaths per day. 290 deaths per million US population. Only around 10 to 72 total deaths per year in Portugal, a country with universal healthcare, and where all drugs have been decriminalized since 2001. See timeline table of yearly overdose deaths by European country.
Cities[]
Return to top. Wiki pages for some of the cities in Portugal that have had Global Cannabis March or 4/20 events: Braga. Coimbra. Lisbon. Porto.
Links[]
- Facebook. Marcha Global Pela Legalização da Marijuana em Portugal.
- Europe. Cannabis-related links.
- Wikipedia: Cannabis in Portugal.
- Wikipedia: Cannabis by country.
- Search for: event videos. And more.
- GMM graphics and other event graphics.
- City lists. Global Marijuana March, 420. Crowd photos.
Drugs decriminalized in 2001[]
Return to top. Portugal decriminalized possession of drugs in 2001.
Videos[]
- Youtube: Portugal’s Drug Laws: Decriminalisation in action. From Australia's Special Broadcasting Service. May 16, 2018. No one has been arrested for simple possession (under the limits) since drug decriminalization started in Portugal in 2001.
Articles[]
- 9 Nov 2023: Oregonians back from trip to Portugal with new insights on their approach to drug decriminalization. By Jillian Fortner. KTVZ (channel 21), Bend, Oregon. "There’s no real disagreement between policymakers and law enforcement leaders in Portugal when it comes to this law."
- 13 May 2021: Drug decriminalisation in Portugal: setting the record straight. By Transform Drug Policy Foundation.
- 5 Oct 2020: Pointers From Portugal on Addiction and the Drug War. By Austin Frakt. New York Times. From article: "Wide disparity in drug overdose deaths between the United States (with a rising and staggering total of nearly 72,000 last year) and European countries like Portugal (which typically has well below 100 such deaths a year)." See: Latest US totals.
- 13 Oct 2019: Why Scotland can ill afford to ignore Portugal’s ground-breaking war on drugs. The Scotsman.
- 16 Jul 2019: Scotland's drug crisis: How Portugal's treatment of addicts halted death toll. Daily Record.
- 18 Jun 2019: Scotland's drug crisis: Why Portugal started treating addicts as human beings. Daily Record.
- 6 Feb 2018: Opinion. Eliminating criminal penalties for all drug use is a logical evolution of Canada's drug policy. Portugal decriminalized drug use years ago. Canada should follow suit. By Tom Shannon, for CBC News.
- 5 Dec 2017: Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? By Susana Ferreira. The Guardian.
- How to Win a War on Drugs. Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime. By Nicholas Kristof. Sept. 22, 2017. New York Times
- Chart of the day: Drug overdose deaths per million persons. Can the US learn something from Portugal? By Mark J. Perry. July 9, 2017. AEIdeas.
- How Europe's heroin capital solved its overdose crisis. By Chris Brown. Apr 25, 2017. CBC.ca. "Goulao says 90 per cent of public money spent fighting drugs in Portugal is channeled toward those health-care goals — just 10 per cent is spent on police enforcement."
- In Portugal, Drug Use Is Treated As A Medical Issue, Not A Crime. By Lauren Frayer. April 18, 2017. Morning Edition.
- What We Can Learn from Portugal's Drug Policy. By Abigail R. Hall, Kaila Preston. March 3, 2017. Independent Institute.
- How decriminalizing drugs helped Portugal solve its overdose crisis. Portugal shares its views as part of our series, The Fentanyl Fix, solutions to B.C's overdose crisis. By Justin McElroy, CBC News. Feb 04, 2017.
- Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin. By Samuel Oakford. April 19, 2016. VICE News.
- Portugal. Decriminalizing Drugs: When Treatment Replaces Prison. 8 Dec 2015, New York Times. By Tina Rosenberg.
- 14 Years After Decriminalizing Drugs, This Chart Shows Why Portugal’s Bold Risk Paid Off. By Zeeshan Aleem. June 9, 2015. Mic.
- Portugal decriminalised drugs 14 years ago – and now hardly anyone dies from overdosing. June 6, 2015 article by Chris Ingraham. The Independent. See: similar article in Washington Post.
- Drug laws around the world - does anyone get it right? By Georgia Graham, 30 Oct 2014. The Telegraph.
- 'This Is Working': Portugal, 12 Years after Decriminalizing Drugs. By Wiebke Hollersen, 27 March 2013, Spiegel Online.
- Portugal: Ten Years After Decriminalization. Drug reporter. Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) Drug Policy Program. By sarosip on 26 November 2012.
- Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs Eleven Years Ago And The Results Are Staggering. By Samuel Blackstone. July 17, 2012. Business Insider.
- Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal. By Erik Kain. July 5, 2011. Forbes.
- "Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?" By Maia Szalavitz. April 26, 2009. Time magazine.
- "5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results". By Brian Vastag. April 7, 2009. Scientific American
- White Paper: Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies." April 2, 2009. By Glenn Greenwald. Cato Institute.
- "The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal." March 14, 2009. Salon.com. By Glenn Greenwald. April 2, 2009 update.
Charts[]
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| Chart from: December 15, 2020 article: Scotland's drug death crisis in six charts. BBC News. |
From July 9, 2017 article. Data is latest available then.
Table[]
This table's data is from Statistical Bulletin 2023 — drug-induced deaths. See table of yearly drug deaths by country there. From European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
Info[]
- Google maps: Portugal.
- Google images: Portugal.
- Wikipedia: Portugal.
- Wikipedia: Drug policy of Portugal.
- Wikitravel: Portugal.
- Wikivoyage: Portugal.
See also[]
- End drug war with universal healthcare and decriminalization.
- Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
Cannabis is safer[]
Return to top. Full site / Mobile. To Top. Or End. Note: The following sections are at: Cannabis and more. The big picture. On most WeedWiki pages.
See 2024 GMM-420 on Fandom and on Shoutwiki. Cannabis is just one aspect of the drug war. See also: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation.
See articles: Cannabis is safer. And: History of US Republican-led war on cannabis, and their lies about its health effects. Note the Republican states (in the South, for example) in the map below.
Wikipedia: Cannabis legality in US
Legal for recreational use
Legal for medical use
No comprehensive medical program
● Decriminalized
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GOP War on Poor[]
And middle class. Since low minimum wage lowers wages above it too.
"Study after study has found that raising minimum wages has a positive effect on employment." - John Driscoll, of Patriotic Millionaires.org - Sep 12, 2024 article. Facebook: Patriotic Millionaires.
| Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. $7.25 states are majority Republican in both houses. New Hampshire in Senate only. Get PNG map noting GOP states. |
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See many maps showing the failings of Republican states. [11] [12].
| History of the US federal minimum wage. $13.46 inflation-adjusted peak in 1968. $7.25 an hour now due to Republican filibusters in the US Senate. See Wikimedia GIF chart. |
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Republicans like the current slave labor pay for farmworkers. An expanded guest worker program would give them better pay.
- US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation. Nov 25, 2024. "Nearly half of the nation's approximately 2 million farm workers lack legal status, ... as well as many dairy and meatpacking workers."
All wealth to top[]
| Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2022. Congressional Budget Office. |
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| Mean household net worth of the bottom 40% is in the red (in debt). See table 1. Image source. On Commons. |
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Tax cuts for rich[]
Return to top. Trump tax proposals. 2024 election. Average tax changes by income group in 2026. From: A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan. Oct 7, 2024. Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
Republican states[]
Return to top. See: US Republican (GOP) states. It is not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps showing the failings of GOP states. & Mirror. Note the states in the South, for example.
In 2024 presidential election only 2 states voted unanimously red (Republican) or blue (Democrat) by county: Massachusetts and Oklahoma. You can google each of the rankings in the image below, and see that they are correct.
2024 election: Oklahoma map. And: Massachusetts map.
Canada vs US GOP[]
Return to top. Canada has legal recreational and medical cannabis across Canada. Republicans (GOP) block both in US. In Canada the average per-person cost of their single-payer universal healthcare is half that of the US. And Canada has a longer average lifespan.
Short PNG image of table below (for sharing on social media).
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US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [14][15][16].
Roswell. Warming[]
Carbon-free energy[]
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Share link: Roswell UFO. Much UFO technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could end global warming. See Stephen Greer (SG) playlist. SG video channels: [17][18][19][20][21]. See his documentary: The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It. [22][23]. SG witness testimonies: [24][25][26][27]. National Press Club: 2023. 2001. SG documentaries for free: [28][29][30][31] [32][33][34][35] [36][37][38]. JustWatch: [39][40][41] [42][43][44]. And: [45][46][47][48] [49][50][51][52] [53][54][55][56] [57][58][59]. SG's Disclosure Project Intelligence Archive. [60]. See also the David Grusch, David Fravor, and Ryan Graves disclosures at July 26, 2023 House hearing about US possession of aliens, alien bodies, alien craft, and back engineering: [61][62][63][64] [65][66][67][68][69] [70][71][72][73][74][75]. See History channel: [76][77][78] [79][80][81][82]. National Geographic: [83][84][85][86]. See: Bob Lazar and George Knapp. See Rendlesham Forest UFO witness interviews. [87].
See the July 8, 1947 Roswell Daily Record below. Image info. Click image to enlarge. Full-size is readable. See full text of saucer article. [88]. U.S. Army officer Walter Haut issued the initial "flying disk" press release. His 2002 notarized affidavit said there were 2 crash sites, and that he had seen a craft, alien bodies, and handled wreckage material. (see page 14 of pdf). It was released in a 2007 book after his death in 2005. 37 witnesses to the Roswell shape memory foil. [89][90][91] [92][93][94]. Page 54 of Jesse Marcel, Jr. book. Crumple it and it uncrumples without creases. Did not exist in 1947.
July 8, 1947. See JPG page with full text transcribed.
Walter Haut in 1947. See JPG file.
Affidavit is on pages 239-242 of the 2022 edition: Witness to Roswell, 75th Anniversary Edition: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-up (more eyewitnesses). 36 pages previewed in Google Books. Click "preview" button and scroll down to pages 239-240. Search within the book. There is an inexpensive Kindle ebook. Moonwalker Dr. Edgar Mitchell wrote the foreword. The 20 paragraph affidavit is online here: [95] (page 14). [96][97][98][99].
Haut's daughter, Julie Shuster, in 2002, 3 years before his death, "verbally discussed each and every sentence" of the affidavit with him. She said it was not a deathbed confession. See Sept 2007 MUFON UFO Journal. Issue 473. Page 15. And this article from Special Broadcasting Service. Archived. See Julie Shuster on IMDb.
Google search: Walter Haut 2002 Roswell affidavit. Articles about Haut:
30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Same article also published here and here. Archived here and here.
5 June 2022: Roswell officer's deathbed confession about theory of alien cover up. By Declan Carey. Archived here.
14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video.
May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article (emphasis added): "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors."
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