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2 hours ago, Beer Boy said:

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/133086356/Mixed-Results-For-Portugals-Great-Drug-Experiment
When Portugal decriminalized all illegal drugs in 2000, officials hoped to reduce addiction rates and drug-related violence. Today, more users are in rehab, but drug use is on the rise, and reporter Keith O'Brien says the policy has made the problem worse.

Keith O’Brien is just a reporter. There’s no reference to sources. And it’s 10 years old.

Try this.

https://transformdrugs.org/drug-decriminalisation-in-portugal-setting-the-record-straight/

 

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30 minutes ago, John Wright said:

Keith O’Brien is just a reporter. There’s no reference to sources. And it’s 10 years old.

Try this.

https://transformdrugs.org/drug-decriminalisation-in-portugal-setting-the-record-straight/

 

I’m not going to read articles and evidence that don’t support my point of view! This is Manx forums. Not some balanced scientific or fair forum? Muppet. 

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33 minutes ago, Beer Boy said:

I’m not going to read articles and evidence that don’t support my point of view! This is Manx forums. Not some balanced scientific or fair forum? Muppet. 

That article you produced is the opinion of a reporter and hardly counts as 'evidence', leaving aside the fact that it was over 10 years old. I doubt you read it all the way through as it doesn't add weight to your argument. There are a whole raft of peer-reviewed papers about the long-term social effects of Portugal's decriminalisation program which provide a far bigger picture than the less-educated and biased opinion of Mr O'brien. The statistics provided by JW's link, which I doubt you glanced at, tell a glaringly different story...

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2 hours ago, Beer Boy said:

I’m not going to read articles and evidence that don’t support my point of view! This is Manx forums. Not some balanced scientific or fair forum? Muppet. 

Hi Sultan...

 

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1 minute ago, TheTeapot said:

So the insane hypocritical bastards are going to allow companies to grow weed for export then.

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/tynwald-approves-licensing-system-to-grow-cannabis-on-iom/

Let me grow some for my own use you pricks.

just grow it in next door's greenhouse and export it on to your property...

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3 minutes ago, TheTeapot said:

So the insane hypocritical bastards are going to allow companies to grow weed for export then.

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/tynwald-approves-licensing-system-to-grow-cannabis-on-iom/

Let me grow some for my own use you pricks.

I don’t give it long  - Starship Enterprise latest blue riband policy, rubber stamped by Tynpotwald. When something goes wrong - missing crop of cannabis or the crop that is supposed to be exported, goes astray, I can see fraught tempers and lots of handwringing. 
 

Biotech, Cleansweep, Low Carbon industries have fallen by the wayside. Manufacturing is a dead duck along with engineering. Have we now reached rock bottom? 
 

It’s worth noting that all the experts were all screaming ‘cruise liner jetty’ and its the latest saviour to the island. The British Virgin Islands are being investigated by the UK Government for such things as criminal activity and fraud - using UK taxpayer funding. Amongst the large scale projects being investigated is a Cruise Ship Jetty. 

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43 minutes ago, the stinking enigma said:

This place will need hundreds of armed guards, workforce searched 3 times a day. Good luck to them i estimate 1000 staff.

Ideal solution. They can grow it at Jurby Prison, use off-cuts to keep the cons quiet in their cells...

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2 hours ago, Non-Believer said:

Ideal solution. They can grow it at Jurby Prison, use off-cuts to keep the cons quiet in their cells...

There’ll be trouble all over the Island as people try to get thrown into prison...

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