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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
Uh...overdoses on what?
Because suggesting that decriminalization of marijuana led to overdoses on other drugs is a horrible post-hoc argument.
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Possibly, although it was supposed to be all of them (including drug-crime related murders) together, the source being the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. As far as I know, the number of overdoses alone have not gone up. Neither am I against decriminalization. The argument was meant to counter the assumption that legalizing marijuana means less market/less organized crime.
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If anyone's interested, there's an official report from 2007 about the effects of decriminalization of drugs in Portugal.
THE EFFECTS OF DECRIMINALIZATION OF DRUG USE IN PORTUGAL