IRONIC: Meta Privacy Leak Class Action Lawsuit Requires You Give them An Absurd Amount of Private Data! Who, What, Where, When and BANKING INFO!

It's Possible to Refuse to Fill out the Freaking Banking Info by simply Requesting that they Mail You a Check... It would be Insane to Give FaceBorg My Checking Account Number! 

FILE CLAIM HERE! 

https://facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/

Facebook likely owes you money. How to see if you're eligible.

Meta has agreed to pay out $725 million to Facebook users to settle a class action lawsuit concerning user privacy.

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-privacy-settlement-payout

Elon Musk Blames Trump for Inflation and Bank Failures... However, Elon is Totally Wrong!

DEBUNKED INFLATION CAUSE CLAIM: Federal spending on pandemic relief like Trump's stimulus payments, small business loans and childcare credits gave consumers too much spending money, and raised demand and prices for everyone...

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However: "Inflation is global. There's been an acceleration of core inflation across every advanced economy, even the ones that did very, very little fiscal relief," he said. "And so I think the evidence linking specific Biden-era policies to the surge in inflation is just really, really weak."

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108388304/inflation-biden-fed-interest-ukraine-stimulus

Here is an excellent opportunity to TEST THE Bezos/Musk THEORY... If Prior Government Cash Giveaways ACTUALLY CAUSED Inflation... This one ought to CAUSE inflation ALSO... It's called Science... Repeat the experiment!

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How to Whip Inflation Now 2022 - Problem: The Ruling Class Has Voluntarily Selected to Raise All Prices. What's the Solution? 

The People That Actually Set Prices at Corporations Do Math to Determine Just How High They Can Set Prices before Customers STOP Buying. The Goal is to Maximize Profits and, if Customers are Not Buying, the Prices are Too High and It's "ROLL BACK" Time. SO... One Way to Motivate them is to SIMPLY STOP BUYING... 

My Personal Boycott is to Stop Shopping at Amazon. I Cancelled my Prime Membership and Haven't Bought Anything in Months... Of Course, This is Not a Big Deal because I Already Have Everything I Want... Jeff Bezos Has Been Behaving Badly Recently and I Refuse to Fund His Plans. 

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Remember: The Trouble With Taking Economics Classes is That You End Up BELIEVING the Fantasies They Teach... Watch the Film "Boom Bust Boom" Instead... MUCH More Insightful... It Starts with a Quote by Alan Greenspan, former Chainman of the Federal Reserve Speaking of the Collapse of The Banking Industry in 2008: "There was a Flaw in the Model I Percieved is the Critical Functioning Structure that Defines How the World Works... So To Speak... " - and That's Why the "Free Free Free Markets Crashed in 2008... He Believed in a Fantasy... and the Banks Lost all their Money... and Obama Magically Replaced the Money for Everyone Except Lehman Brothers... SOMEONE Had to be the Scape Goat... However, CEO Richard Fuld Personally Kept Millions of Dollars and Has Come Back to Play the Stock Market Again... The OCCUPY WALL STREET Movement was In Reaction to This Bailout of the Super Rich... 

Sally Said: "I believe It's Time to Actually DO the Things President Ford Suggested... Carpool, Plant Victory Gardens, Go on a Diet and Buy Less Food, Keep Your Cars a Few Extra Years... You Know, Common Sense Thrift." 

and Billy Said: "Nope. Not for Me... I just got this New Job at Higher Pay and I'm Just Going to Continue Shopping! I Can Afford It!" 

and Sally Replied: "Oh That's Great for YOU but I'm Actually Being Paid LESS than I was Before... Inflation is Greater Than Wage Increase... So The Bottom Line is... When I Go Shopping, I Come Home With Less." 

and On FaceBORG:

SG Said: 

"That’s why throwing stimulus checks out by the trillions gets you votes in the short term but the consequences of doing so hurts the consumer in the long run." 

Really? Did the Stimulous Checks Actually Have anything at all to Do with Inflation? NO... That's Just a Billionaire "Talking Point" designed to distract the Public from the Actual Cause... Which Is: More people getting Higher paid Jobs. That Allowed The People that Set Prices to Raise Prices... Because People Can Afford To Pay More... 

Headline: Elon Musk has told Tesla employees to come back into their respective offices at least 40 hours a week or leave the company.

AW Said:

I think many will leave. Competitors are becoming way more flexible and it seems like a requirement in order to retain and win talent. On the flip side, the job market has cooled off quite a bit lately. I’ve seen many recent layoffs in tech…

I said:

MANY People will Question IF Tesla is the Best Place to Work. Should I Take a Job with a Shorter Commute? or No Commute at all? Reality: Driving in a Car 2 Hours a Day is a Horrible waste of Life. 2 Hours that you could use to do something Valuable... Like Playing with your Kids... or Learning to Play the Guitar... or ANYTHING!

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I've been BLOCKED from Posting on FaceBorg for 3 Days Because I Said: "I'm so Old that I took LSD at a Grateful Dead Concert. THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!" - In Response to an "I'm So Old" meme...

Thankfully I Have 12 Other Social media sites! Of Course, I'm Welcome to READ FaceBorg... and SHOP on FaceBorg... but NO WRITING!

anyway... Now I'm Back... and NOT writing about "Forbidden Subjects"

Here's another "I'm So Old" Statement...

"carriage return" ... That's what the ENTER Key is Called on a Typewriter... I took typing class in High School but never actually typed anything... in College or at Work... I have used a Mimeograph Machine... To make Posters for Teen Club Dances... I Scratched large letters and Pictures on the Master Form... I Have used a Slide Rule during College Chemistry Class...Since I Graduated High School in 1972 I was Right on the VERGE of the New World... Men that were in the Class of 1971 were Drafted and Had to Go To Vietnam... but MY Classmates Registered for the Draft but Never were asked to KILL ANYONE... Wonderful!

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REALITY DENIERS: Republicans Have Gone Crazy. They Are a Danger to The USA... They Plan to Outlaw Freedom! Outlaw Abortion, Outlaw Birth Control, Outlaw Gay Marriage...

 

Remember: BLOCK and REPORT Every QAnon Freak! Report Them for Hate Speech, False Statements or Violence... Every Social Media Platform Has a Way to Block People... There is NO REASON In the World that I Would Want to Read Their CrazyTalk®

#ArrestTrump #LockHimUp #QAnonSucks 

Yes, Republicans are blaming, President Biden for the inflation. No one man, not even President of the United States can do that folks. It's corporate greed as displayed here, production and distribution breaks downs, and mostly republican politicians refusing to vote for anything remotely helpful to the American people. The only exception was the Pandemic relief money. However, that being said, the republican politicians kept wanting to reduce the amount Americans would be given to live on, (through no fault of their own) despite record unemployment, and a rampant deadly virus on the loose causing widespread shut downs with many businesses. It baffles my mind how people forget all that...all they were put through by republican politicians during one of the worst times in our nation's and world's history. More baffling is blaming President Biden for all their woes. He wanted people to get help, he tried and tried to get us pandemic relief money, more food assistance for those on government food programs, he kept people from getting evicted from their homes because they couldn't go to work. I could go on and on, but it was the republican politicians who not only didn't want to continue to help, but wanted to reduce help given and then began to say "no" to all help. I ask you who does that to people in need? I think or I would hope you know the answer to those questions. Please vote accordingly.

SE SAID:

It's interesting when people on the right make comments like, "The left is obsessed with Trump" or "The left can't stop talking about Trump." Of course, they never, ever acknowledge the reasons WHY we need to talk about Trump. Trump is the first president who refused to concede that he lost an election, and instead of the peaceful transfer of power, he rallied his supporters to stage a coup to try to seize power. That was almost 2 years ago, but now he still insists that he actually won the election, and he shows no remorse for his actions on January 6th. Then later, classified documents which did not belong to him were found at Mar-a-Lago, and he refused to return those documents, so the FBI had to go in and get the documents. These things have NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE with any other former president. Is it really so weird that "the left" would talk about these incidents?? It's not as if people are just sitting around talking about him for no reason. He has done things - and continues to do things - which can't be ignored because they are so egregious. How is it possible that anyone does not understand that?

We don't really have any reason to talk about Obama anymore. We don't really have any reason to talk about Bush anymore. The reason is because Obama and Bush have never broken any laws or threatened our democracy in any way. If either Obama or Bush had done the things Trump did, we WOULD talk about them. If a former US president threatens our democracy, of COURSE it should be talked about. Until Trump is finally held accountable for his actions, I hope everyone continues to talk about those actions.

and RB Said: 

By the way, the person that said that considers themselves to be very Left leaning.

and SE Replied:

You understand the reasons WHY people still talk about Trump, don't you? You understand that we wouldn't talk about him if he would stop with the "stolen election" lies and just fade into the background like every past president has done. Surely you can see the difference?

and RB Replied:

I know why you guys talk about him. The man is a media whore that the Left loves to feed. It doesn't matter if what said is good or bad, he knows that his value just goes up.

You're probably not going to like this either: Mark my words, after all of this Jan 6 stuff is done, Trump will not go to jail. He might loose some money (which has never bothered him because he always comes right back) but everyone around him will go down. Hate him or love him, he's not stupid and has got away with this kind of crap all of his life.

and then SE Said:

You're probably right that "Teflon Don" won't go to jail. But are you saying that you think we should just stop talking about the crazy stuff he does? It's not about some irrational obsession with Trump, it's based on the things he does! If any other past president did the things he has done, the media would talk about them just as much!

and RB Replied:

Like I said, talk good or bad about him, he just gets more recognition, fame and worth. All presidents do crappy things. They're just playing political games. Didn't Obama drone bomb an innocent wedding? And how are they all worth millions after getting paid $450K/year? They're not servants of the people, they serve corporations and special interests.

and AI Said:

The Jan 6th hearings have actually chipped away at his remaining support. It’s true there are still a significant number of people who are either completely out of touch with reality or who thrive in the bigoted atmosphere he allows and so still support him.

But his frauds have been laid bare in NY court and that judgement is likely to severely curtail his usefulness and his pocketbook.

It’s going slowly, true, but it is still going in the right directions. Unfortunately, too much still hinges on the upcoming election and the GOP is sure to pull out every dirty trick they can.

and JA Said:

bringing up an Obama drone strike only highlights one of the most striking differences between Trump and other presidents.

Other presidents have tried to do the right thing, but sometimes get bad intel.

With Trump, though, even when he had good intel, his tendency was to do the wrong thing.

He knew he had lost the election and that the conspiracy theories were false, but he amplified them anyway.

He had guidance that could have helped the country get through the COVID outbreak with less damage and fewer lives lost, but he insisted on resisting science.

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and now for something completely different!

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When I Read Opinions Written by People That Have Absolutely NO Understanding of a Subject, I Report 'em to the FaceBORG Brain Police, and Block 'em So I'll Never Read What They Have to Say Again... I'm Just Doin' My Part to Clean Up the Internet! 

What If Everyone Took Action to Eliminate CrazyTalk® Everywhere? Every Social Media Platform has a Way to Report QAnon FREAKS and Block Them!

Wikipedia Proved that Most People Prefer Truth... Anyone May Post Anything and Everyone May Delete False Statements...  Only Brainwashed TrumpNiks® Howl About Freedom of Speech When They Really Want Freedon to LIE... 

I Have Noticed a Trend. Many Republicans are Totally in Favor of YOU OBEYING THEM. They will make all the Decisions and Pass Laws That Make YOU Do What they Tell You To Do...  

If We Are to "Make America Great Again" there must have been a Time When America Was Great! 1775? 1848? 1969? 1999? This Morning?

The America of 1848 in the South was the Ideal Time and Place for the People Shouting The Slogan "Make America Great Again." We Had Slavery, Which allowed White People to Live a Work Free Life...  Women did not have the right to VOTE. Homosexuality did not exist, No Hippies and NO TRAFFIC Jams! Orientals Lived in the Orient. Mexicans Lived in Mexico, Tejas or California... 

Staircase in the Movie Gone With The Wind... That Era Was a LOT Better Than Living in a Double Wide Mobile Home... and Working at a Gas Station... 

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Did You Know That Most Mindless Vegetables Vote for Republicans... I have Verified This in Real Life. People with Extreme Dementia or are Actually in a Coma often Have Their Children Fill Out The Ballot Without Their Noticing... and Usually the Type Of Weasel That Would Commit Fraud While Voting are Members of the QuackAnon GOP Party... Total Sleaseballs!

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However, I Too Enjoy Stating My Own Opinion About Subjects I Know Nothing About... Join the Fun! Be a PUNDIT! 

For Example: I Know Nothing About Sub Atomic Physics and Yet, In My Humble Opinion, CERN Has Been Almost a Complete Waste of Money... NOTHING Learned There Has Been of Any Value to Anyone... Supposedly, They Found the God Particle! Well, SO FREAKING WHAT! Really... If You Can Explain HOW That Has Made a Difference, GO RIGHT AHEAD... The Comments Section is Down at the Bottom of the Page... You Can't!

However, Tim Burners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web while working there... The Hyperlink is a Way to Organize Pages of Information that he was Involved With at CERN... and We ALL are Glad He Did... 

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Did You Know that Congress Often Pass Laws Without Having any Understanding... For Example: Medicinal Psychedelics are Illegal in the USA. Doctors and Patients are Forbidden from Making their Own Treatment Decisions... Did the Congress Have any Understanding of MEDICINE? NO... 

 They Based Their Decisions on Advice Given by "Big Pharma" Who Wanted to Make their Competition Illegal so they Could Sell More of their Own PsychMeds... After All, If a Patient Becomes CURED they a Customer is Lost... 

Some People have Gone on Healing Journeys to Peru to Take the DMT that the Indians have been Using for Thousands of Years... Ayahuasca Tourism

It would be VASTLY Safer for the Consumer if Psychedelics were Legal and Subject to FDA Oversight... Having Quality and Doseage Regulated would prevent Many "Trips" to the Emergency Room.

Bribery and Corruption of Elected Officials has been Made Legal by a Law Named "Citizens United" - That Allows Rich People to Donate Unlimited Amounts of Money to Untraceable Campaign Political Action Commities... Organizations that can Buy TV ADS for Candidates without the Candidate being Involved in Justifying the Source of the Money...

 For Example: The Country RUSSIA Donated Money to the NRA which Paid for Donald Trump Campaign Advertisements... 

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/09/gop-operatives-funneling-russian-money-trump-latest-foreign-straw-donor-scheme/

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/14/russian-oligarch-andrey-muraviev-indicted-linked-to-trump-donors.html

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AN ADDICT FELL IN A HOLE and couldn’t get out.

A businessman went by and the addict called out for help. The businessman threw him some money and told him to buy himself a ladder. But the addict could not buy a ladder in this hole he was in.

A doctor walked by. The addict said, “Help! I can’t get out!” The doctor gave him some drugs and said, “Take this. It will relieve the pain.” The addict said thanks, but when the pills ran out, he was still in the hole.

A well-known psychiatrist rode by and heard the addict’s cries for help. He stopped and asked, ” How did you get there? Were you born there? Did your parents put you there? Tell me about yourself, it will alleviate your sense of loneliness.” So the addict talked with him for an hour, then the psychiatrist had to leave, but he said he’d be back next week.

The addict thanked him, but he was still in the hole. A priest came by. The addict called for help. The priest gave him a Bible and said, “I’ll say a prayer for you.” He got down on his knees and prayed for the addict, then he left. The addict was very grateful, he read the Bible, but he was still stuck in the hole.

A recovering addict happened to be passing by. The addict cried out, “Hey, help me. I’m stuck in this hole!” Right away the recovering addict jumped down in the hole with him. The addict said, “What are you doing? Now we’re both stuck here!!” But the recovering addict said, “Calm down. It’s okay. I’ve been here before. I know how to get out.”

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"The Path Forward" - 20 Simple Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place to Live... 

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1. Tax the Rich, Cut Taxes for the 99%. All that Extra Money in People's Paychecks will Bubble 

UP Throughout The Entire Economy. Raise the Minimum Wage to $15.00 and Increase All 

Social Security Checks by 15% - People WILL 

Spend that Extra Money at American 

Businesses Causing Higher Profits... and 

Increased Hiring to Handle the New Customers. EVERYBODY WINS!

2. Gerrymandering Allows Unpopular 

Candidates to Serve in Elected Offices. By 

Drawing Crazy Lines on a Map We Have Insane Monsters Represent Minority Viewpoints. A 

Tool That Has Allowed the Republican Party to Rule... UNTIL 2020... In That Election Trump 

Backlash Caused the Democrats to WIN The 

House, Senate and Presidency. 

A Total Rejection of Trump AND His Evil 

Minions!

3. Trump's EPA=Enable Polluters Agency. Let 

FLIP The Mission to Protecting the 

Environment! Do It For The Children!

4. End Federal Subsidies for Oil and Gas. Start Subsidizing Solar and Wind. Create a "Manhattan Project" to Do Basic Research into 

Better Batteries... and Solar Powered 

Desalinization... We Need Clean Drinking Water... 

5. Increase Federal Spending on Our Crumbling 

Infrastructure. We Can Pay For It By Cutting 

Defense Spending In Half. Remember: Since 

1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The 

USA. NOT EVEN ONCE. All Those Taxpayer 

Dollars are Just BOGUS Welfare for The Military Industrial Complex... 

6. Start Training Classes For the Police So They 

Stop Murdering Unarmed Black People. This One Simple Trick Will Save Billions of Dollars Currently Wasted on Rebuilding Cities from Riots! There 

Simply Will Not BE Riots! and No Million Dollar Settlements With the Family 

of the Murder Victim. DUH!

$12 Million Awarded to Breonna Taylors Family 

AND Countless Millions Spent on Riot Control... 

The Police Don't Work For Free!

7. Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free 

All the Cannabis Prisoners. Use the Empty Jail 

Cells as a Homeless Shelter. Just Remove the 

Bars and They are Already Set Up With Food, Medicine, Showers, a Library and Basketball 

Court! This Would Cause a Massive INCREASE 

In Voluntary Taxes and a Massive DECREASE in Government Spending... EVERYBODY WINS!

8. Fund Basic Research into Fighting 

Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome. It's 

an Epidemic! Destroying The USA By The Blood Sucking 

Leeches of the Ruling Class... This 

Mental Health Disease Manifests Itself By The 

Super Rich Purchasing Senators and 

Congressmen That Pass Laws Benefitting the 

Super Rich... at The Expense of 99% of 

Americans... 

The only Solution I Can Think of 

is #FRANCE1789... #OccupyWashingtonDC 

There is a CrazyLaw® Called Citizens United 

That Needs to Be Reversed... It Legalizes 

Bribery of Politicians... WITH NO RECORD of 

Who Spent What... Enabling Russian Funding 

of The NRA and the GOP... 

9. #ImpeachBrett #ImpeachAmy - Remove 

Bratt Kava Kava NOOGIE from the Supreme 

Court. Remove Amy Too... No Reason Needed...

Just Have the House File Impeachment 

Charges and The Senate Convict Them... 

Before They Do Any More Damage to the USA... 

10. Allow ARREST of a Sitting President by the Department of Justice... There is a DOJ 

OPINION that Says We Cannot 

Indict a Sitting President... 

EVEN IF HE IS GUILTY OF A CRIME... 

That's a Crazy Idea... 

In Effect, It Made Crime Legal for 

"HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED" 

and His Friends... #fuBARR is a 

Co-Conspirator... It's Just an Opinion... 

The Supreme Court Has NOT Ruled That 

It's VALID... 

11. Overturn Citizens United. Remove Bribery 

From US Elections... 

12. End the Electoral College. Most Americans 

Prefer Majority Rule... The Electoral College 

allowed the TWO WORST PRESIDENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY to serve... 

George Bush The Son and Donald Trump The Insane...

13. Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let 

Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves 

What Treatment is Best. Get Corrupt 

Lawmakers OUT of Medicine... They Are 

Just Puppets of Big Pharma. The GOAL of 

Pharmaceutical Corporations is PROFIT, NOT HEALTH. 

14. We Could Provide Shelter for Homeless 

People in the Unused Jail Cells that Once 

Were Used to Incarcerate Cannabis Prisoners... 

Once you remove the Bars, a Jail Cell has a 

Bed, Food, Medicine, Showers, a Library and 

Exercise... Everything Needed to Rebuild a Life...

15. Get Vaccines for Your Children. They Save 

Lives. Not Just Your Own Children's Life but 

Everyone In The Community.

16. End Trump's Trade War With China. That 

Would Let American Farmers Sell Them More Food... 

17. Let's Cut the Budget for NSA Spying on 

Americans And CIA, FBI, DIA, DARPA and EIEIO

Programs... Those Program has Proved to be 

Useless and a Fundamental Invasion of 

Privacy... a Violation of the Fourth Amendment 

to the Constitution... 

Hey, If You're a Freaking NARC, UckFay OuYay...  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_

Amendment_to_the_United_States_

Constitution

18. Wear Masks, Practice Social Distancing

and Wash Your Hands. It's Not Complicated. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/11/wear-

masks-practice-social-distancing.html 

19. It Ought to be Illegal for People to Go on 

TV and Call for Murdering Other People. Like 

Steve Bannon, Rude Julie Anna and Trump's 

Lawyer Joe DiGenova Did.

20. Net Neutrality. Let the Internet be a Level 

Playing Field. 

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Chapter ZERO:

in Which Billy and Sally Go to Portugul in Search of Legal Drugs... 

Sally Said: "I'm gonna Do Some Online Research before we go so We'll Know What's Going On!" 

Billy Said: "Good Plan... Sure Wouldn't Want to Spend a Fortune on Airplane Tickets and Then Find Out We'd be Better Off at Home" 

---> and Sally Did the Research and Found Out That While Possession of Small Amounts of Drugs IS LEGAL, Dealing is Illegal... SO... If they Went to Portugal It Might be Difficult to FIND a Dealer Who Wanted to Sell to Tourists. <--- 

She Said: "You Know, Billy, Since We Already are Here in California... We'd be Better Off Buying Marijuana Cookies and Bags of Weed in the Retail Stores... and Cookies & Coffee Get me as Stoned as I Really Want to Get... So... Portugal is Out."  

---> and here are the Articles <---

https://substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com/articles/

10.1186/s13011-021-00394-7

ABSTRACT:

Portugal decriminalized the public and private use, acquisition, and possession of all drugs in 2000; adopting an approach focused on public health rather than public-order priorities.

CONCLUSIONS:

They Recriminalized Large Quantities of Drugs in 2008... The Supreme Court of Justice took the position, by judgment of reestablishing the crime of drug use when the quantity detected exceeds the average individual use for a period of ten days. 

SO... Dealers Can be Arrested but Users Are not... Interesting!

https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-portugal-setting-the-record-straight

SOCIAL COSTS:

A 2015 study found that the social costs of drug use in Portugal fell 12% between 2000 and 2004, and 18% by 2010. While the former figure was largely driven by the reduction in drug-related deaths, the latter was linked to a ‘significant reduction’ in costs associated with criminal proceedings for drug offences and lost income of individuals imprisoned for these offences.51

CONCLUSION:

Portugal has set a positive example for what can be done when drug policies prioritise health rather than criminalisation. At the turn of the century, Portugal was facing a crisis, including high levels of HIV infection among people who use drugs. Many impacts of reform were felt immediately: new HIV infections, drug deaths and the prison population all fell sharply within the first decade. 

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Then Billy asked: "What About Amsterdam? I've Heard It's Great!"

And Sally Replied: "Let's Find Out!" and Started Doing some Research... 

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MORE TO COME! as soon as I think up the next paragraph...