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Politics

Portugal's novel approach to drugs

Lauren Frayer, LisbonMay 12, 2017

In the 1980s and 90s, Lisbon had one of the worst heroin epidemics in the world. The government responded with a novel tactic: It decriminalized all drugs, and began treating drug abuse as a health issue, not a crime.

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