Shayari Bazar

After Portugal decriminalized every imaginable drug from marijuana to cocaine to heroin on July 1st 2001 has resulted in drastic reduction in addicts with Portuguese officials and reports highlighting that this number at 100 000 before the new policy was enacted has been halved in the following ten years Portugal s drug usage rates are now among the lowest of EU member states according to the same report Decriminalizing means use is moved out of criminal courts and into a special court where each offender s unique situation is judged by legal experts psychologists and social workers Treatment and further action is decided in these courts where addicts and drug use is treated as a public health service rather than referring it to the justice system