When Portugal decriminalized all illegal drugs in 2000, officials hoped to reduce addiction rates and drug-related violence. Today, more users are... Mixed Results For Portugal's Great Drug Experiment ...

Police seize heroin and marijuana in St. Peters in June 2015 during part of a 10-month long joint investigation between the DEA, ATF and the St. Charles Regional Drug Task Force. Photo courtesy of the ...

Portugal is the latest European country to treat illegal drugs as a health problem as well as a crime. In the Netherlands, some drugs are legal. In South London, marijuana has been experimentally ...

The issue of decriminalizing illicit drugs is hotly debated, but is rarely subject to evidence-based analysis. This paper examines the case of Portugal, a nation that decrìminalized the use and ...

Lisbon, Portugal - The United States, which has waged a 40-year, $1 trillion war on drugs, is looking for answers in tiny Portugal, which is reaping the benefits of what once looked like a dangerous ...