Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Time to decriminalize drugs? The Portuguese experiment

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"...the Portuguese government decided to create a high-level commission, dominated by health care professionals, to recommend a solution. The commission's surprise recommendation: Don't officially legalize all drugs. Instead, decriminalize them, take away all criminal penalties." Time to decriminalize drugs? By By Neil Peirce, syndicated columnist By Daily Hampshire Gazette Created 04/27/2009 The criminal factor is being lifted from marijuana use in California. The other 12 states where marijuana is permitted for medical use can't be far behind. And if 13 states now, then all 50 in the next years? That's the future some see flowing from a decision announced Feb. 25 by Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. The federal Drug Enforcement Agency, Holder announced, would stop its raids on marijuana dispensaries in states where marijuana is legal for medicinal purposes...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 27, 2009 (boomark / email).