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Variations of drug liberalization include drug legalization, drug relegalization, and drug decriminalization. [1] Proponents of drug liberalization may favor a regulatory regime for the production, marketing, and distribution of some or all currently illegal drugs in a manner analogous to that for alcohol , caffeine and tobacco .
Studies on decriminalization of marijuana in Portugal have indicated it to be a "huge success". [142] Drug use rates in Portugal were found to be dramatically lower than the United States with decriminalization enacted. [142] Teenage use of marijuana in the Netherlands where it is sold legally and openly is lower than in the United States. [143 ...
The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, also known as the MORE Act, is a proposed piece of U.S. federal legislation that would deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and enact various criminal and social justice reforms related to cannabis, including the expungement of prior convictions.
Drug decriminalization in Oregon came about as the result of a ballot measure, known as Measure 110, that received nearly 60% support from voters in 2020.
Oregon’s first-in-the-nation experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday, when possessing small amounts of hard drugs will once again become a crime. The Democratic ...
Decriminalization activists promised 110 would inject some much-needed compassion that the war on drugs omitted. Under the new regime, drug offenders in Oregon were issued a $100 ticket with the ...
Drug decriminalization would remove the "glamorous Al Capone-type traffickers who are role-models for the young". [153] The lack of government regulation and control over the lucrative illegal drug market has created a large population of unregulated drug dealers who lure many children into the illegal drug trade.
Psilocybin is a psychedelic drug produced naturally by psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as "magic mushrooms". [4] In the United States, it is federally classified as a Schedule I controlled substance that has "no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse." [5] The drug was banned by the 1970 Controlled Substances Act. [6]