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^ Its an unorthodox approach as far as the Western world is concerned. But when you look at countries like Portugal that legalized the possession of drugs and focused on treatment and therapy instead of criminalizing offenders, they saw not only a drop in drug use among young people but a drastic increase in the number of people seeking treatment to get off of them. A big problem is criminalizing drug offenders is big business, a cycle that is perpetuated by lobbyists that represent the pharmaceutical and private prison industries who would lose a lot of money otherwise.
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