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In 2009, Portugal's Decriminalized drugs which Showed a Positive Result 5 years after for deaths from overdoses and the rate of HIV cases. The theory however was to start focusing on treatment and prevention instead of jailing users which would decrease the number of deaths and infections. (& i have not heard Paul make this his standpoint). "Now instead of being put into prison, addicts are going to treatment centers and they're learning how to control their drug usage or getting off drugs entirely," report author Glenn Greenwald said.

Under the Portuguese plan, penalties for people caught dealing and trafficking drugs are unchanged; dealers are still jailed and subjected to fines depending on the crime. But people caught using or possessing small amounts—defined as the amount needed for 10 days of personal use—are brought before what's known as a "Dissuasion Commission," an administrative body created by the 2001 law.

Drug legalization removes all criminal penalties for producing, selling and using drugs; no country has tried it. In contrast, decriminalization, as practiced in Portugal, eliminates jail time for drug users but maintains criminal penalties for dealers. Spain and Italy have also decriminalized personal use of drugs and Mexico's president has proposed doing the same. there is a difference between the two & legalisation of all drugs was not what was done here.

No Facebook = REVOLUTION!!!!.

wait, the only thing we should prohibit is violence? - what about self-defence, manslaughter & war-crimes? those are types of violence but receive lesser or no prison sentencing at all if it can be proved as suitable in a court of law. Paul just makes sweeping generalisations & this is why i dislike libertarianism it doesn't work in the real-world, not all drug offenders are none violent - and hard drug usage also seeps into other crimes so trying to just fit all drug related crime into one neat little box seems a bit fanciful.

Don't just uncritically believe everything Paul feeds you, remember he's a Dr. who does not believe in evolution & thinks that the government should not provide vaccines to people because it's their liberty not to have them. Seriously...

If Romney has earned this level of negative publicity then clearly 'he is the new front-runner' (Again!). every candidate thus far has suffered its consequence's, Bachmann's crazy tea-party rhetoric, possibly gay hubby & weird magazine picture & speaking off camera. Hermain Cain we'll just leave it there, 'you all know'. Newt and his staffing problems & taking donations of $1.6 million (that we know about) from Freddie Mac, Paul's Racists articles & letting people to die you aren't insured (As he must make his own choice?), and now coming full circle back to Santorums Bible thumping anti-gay fear-mongering & Romney taking exorbitant profit while CEO of Bain capital.

I never thought i'd see the day that when in a republican debate others on stage would voice any opposition to free market capitalism run a mock, quite an intriguing turn of events indeed.

Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.

Shampoo & conditioner in the one bottle "you can't explain that".

thanks for posting this it was very educational. i

this documentary blew my socks off, i cannot believe how educational & inspirational it was & should be required viewing for all school students, not just those who choose to study psychology or behavioural studies.

Love the bit at the end where he said, only a short while ago i had you believing you were a psychopath, and its soo strange that it can flip like that so quickly as it did with me.

bravo on finding this:)

This is just sickening, I wish that consumerism was how it used to be, you know based on what you functionally needed rather than what a particular item said about you personally. And this only continues in people's lives and gets worse & worse as there is ALWAYS something new to buy & you can never fulfil yourself. with some people it is just a part of their character, constantly purchasing Cars, TV's, Play-station's Etc. by virtue of how cool it makes them appear to others or out-doing the jones's and as a result will likely never be released from the shackles of debt.

Maybe this is the reason why some retirees blow their kids inheritance in their later years, and with kids like these who can really blame them?.

why does he believe the polls about Paul's popularity are 100% legit, yet basically everything else told in the media is lies?.

SCIENCE FTW.

these Christians do not adhere to the very messages of their teacher, who they love to hide behind to get away with proclaiming these bigoted, hateful, homophobic, racist and just flat off wrong ideas unfit for today's civilised society.

egocentric christians telling everyone that they KNOW the truth, that god speaks directly to them, they know his will and direction of progress or lack thereof and yet blame atheists who never claim such things that we are deluded?, what the!.

wasn't stoopidcaine the republican candidate who couldn't keep his hands to himself...

the idea of no morals with god is so absurd - it's like the late hitchens said "God only started giving a damn for 2000 years & human existance has been around for more than 100,000 so were was god during this time?, why does he care now & why should we listen when we survived perfected well with it during all that time & killing was done with impunity.

A quote about this subject that always stays true is "Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair colour". - some arguments are just flawed from the start.