{"id":3777,"date":"2011-07-08T01:24:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T06:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2011-07-08T01:28:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T06:28:09","slug":"for-vic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3777","title":{"rendered":"For Vic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than bankrupting our treasuries, locking more people behind bars than the Chinese and exerting great pressure on Mexicans to ratchet up their drug massacres we could follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5g9C6x99EnFVdFuXw_B8pvDRzLqcA?docId=CNG.e740b6d0077ba8c28f6d1dd931c6f679.5e1\">the example of Portugal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugal&#8217;s decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them is an experiment that has worked. &#8220;There is no doubt that the phenomenon of addiction is in decline in Portugal,&#8221; said Joao Goulao, President of the Institute of Drugs and Drugs Addiction, a press conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the law. The number of addicts considered &#8220;problematic&#8221; &#8212; those who repeatedly use &#8220;hard&#8221; drugs and intravenous users &#8212; had fallen by half since the early 1990s, when the figure was estimated at around 100,000 people, Goulao said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its also worth noting that unlike the Tea Party or the Greeks the Portuguese are facing up to a massive debt without whining or rioting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than bankrupting our treasuries, locking more people behind bars than the Chinese and exerting great pressure on Mexicans to ratchet up their drug&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,84,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}