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He uses heroin as a metaphor. Do you know metaphors shouldn't be taken in very precise details, right?

> If we sold it for a dollar at every gas station we wouldn't have nearlythe same problems with it we do today.

Go to Portugal. Heroin consumption is legalized there. And it isn't a pretty sight.





Heroin consumption isn't legalized here, it is decriminalized.

Also, it was MUCH worse when it was a crime.

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Well, I will love to go to Portugal someday, but for now I used the internet, and found out that since Portugal decriminalized heroin, its drug usage has fallen below EU average:

https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-po...

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It's complicated. Portugal had a huge problem before it was made "legal", too. (It's not exactly legal.)

Look at drug overdose deaths for instance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal

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