"High Price" that we should decriminalize all drugs, from methamphetamine to heroin, to cocaine. Decriminalize everything. Now, some people say, well, why should we legalize all drugs?That's not legalization. Legalization is what we're doing with alcohol.
countries and this is interesting healthwise so Hollands had decriminalized cannabis for 40 years Portugal has had all drugs decriminalized since 2002 so what happens in terms of use is very interesting both cultures saythere's a slight uptick in use among all demographics as soon as decriminalization happens but it levels off it levels off to a level that's
football, which is its real name, but for those who don't know the sport, it's very simple. Once you decriminalize drugs, people will be buying those substances through legal means.
My biggest accomplishment is when I was on television, completely accepting my gender fluidity, in 2018. It's also the year when the decriminalize Section 377. So I made a comeback on television.
But since we've been lied to about drugs and our policies are based on some false assumptions, I'm arguing in "High Price" that we should decriminalize all drugs, from methamphetamine to heroin, to cocaine. Decriminalize everything. Now, some people say, well, why should we legalize all drugs?
the United Nations human rights committee and they after um our presentation um they came up with recommendations to the government of Cameroon to decriminalize to take it out of their law but I'm going to give you now a concrete example of what it means
And when I think of representation in Indian media, I remember all these tropes about queer and trans people from like a decade ago. You mentioned that we've recently decriminalized homosexuality in India.
And for those of you who might not know what that is, it's that you can't access abortion services in any circumstances, not even to preserve your own life. Uruguay in 2012 passed a law that decriminalized abortion up to 12 weeks in the country.
can't predict um I can tell you this though though I mean I I will say I looked at um some stats from other countries and this is interesting healthwise so Hollands had decriminalized cannabis for 40 years Portugal has had all drugs decriminalized since 2002 so what happens in terms of use is very interesting both cultures say
It's just, we have friends and family who have come from our agency who really support the girls, the families of the girls can come, Has that changed the program and the-- given that that's been decriminalized in some sense like you were saying, has that changed
Sorry, I don't know a youth offender. Criminal summonses and arrests dropped more than 90% since a Democratic-controlled city government decriminalized low-level offenses last year. What does that mean?
Now, I also argue that if you're going to have decriminalization-- I should just say briefly that the idea of decriminalization is not new. The country of Portugal has decriminalized all drugs, and they have done this since 2001, and they are faring better than us on all of the major indicators.
gone down since they were first measured in 1990. And the victimization of children in school by fights and other nonfatal crimes has also gone down since they were first measured. The gay rights movement has seen an increase in the number of states that have decriminalized homosexuality both nation states worldwide and states with in the United States of America. It is now at 100 percent following a Supreme Court ruling. Every opinion poll has shown antigay attitudes have been in decline such as whether homosexuality is morally wrong
by the end of the coming decade-- joining other institutions that have more or less been permanently abolished such as human sacrifice and chattel slavery. Also, country after country has decriminalized homosexuality-- again, it's by no means all. But just in the last year, countries as diverse as Lebanon, India, and Trinidad and Tobago have decriminalized homosexuality.
Levels of drug use, drug related deaths, all of those sorts of things. And also, in this country, we have decriminalized marijuana in a growing number of states. So decriminalization is not something new.
You want to let people know what the real problem may be. Thank you. You mentioned Portugal, and I've read a little bit about it, and it seems they decriminalize and then also shifted some public resources toward treatment and
and chattel slavery. Also, country after country has decriminalized homosexuality-- again, it's by no means all. But just in the last year, countries as diverse as Lebanon, India, and Trinidad and Tobago have decriminalized homosexuality. Child labor-- it used to be standard practice for people to send their kids to work in farms and factories.
And now you have this third generation of kids on the street who have only been socialized in the norms of the drug war. Because in 2001, Portugal-- which the United Nations said at the time they were breaching the treaty-- Portugal decriminalized drugs.
But it wasn't an issue. In 1857, the Ottomans, 1857, early on the Ottomans decriminalized it. They made it an individual choice.
He's also gay. And when he comes to London in 1974 at the age of 22, he's trying to find his way through all the enhanced possibilities of London during those years, now seven years after the Sexual Offenses Act of 1967 which decriminalized male homosexuality in England. But the change in the law having happened overnight, the social change is taking rather longer to permeate.
And also, in this country, we have decriminalized marijuana in a growing number of states. So decriminalization is not something new. But if you have decriminalization as I'm arguing, you have to also increase the amount of
decriminalized since 2002 so what happens in terms of use is very interesting both cultures saythere's a slight uptick in use among all demographics as soon as decriminalization happens but it levels off it levels off to a level that's equal or in the case of Holland teen use is the low in Holland of any other country in Europe wow I think it's just
So I'm arguing in "High Price" the same should be done with everyone else. Now, I also argue that if you're going to have decriminalization-- I should just say briefly that the idea of decriminalization is not new. The country of Portugal has decriminalized all drugs, and they have done this since 2001, and they are faring