Descriminalizacion

Evidencia sobre la descriminalizacion- creo que esta es una palabra inventada, pero al menos criminalizacion, con su debido tilde, existe segun la RAE- de las drogas en Portugal (no confundir con despenalizacion ni legalizacion),

Mr Greenwald claims that the data show that “decriminalisation has had no adverse effect on drug usage rates in Portugal”, which “in numerous categories are now among the lowest in the European Union”. This came after some rises in the 1990s, before decriminalisation. The figures reveal little evidence of drug tourism: 95% of those cited for drug misdemeanours since 2001 have been Portuguese. The level of drug trafficking, measured by numbers convicted, has also declined. And the incidence of other drug-related problems, including sexually transmitted diseases and deaths from drug overdoses, has “decreased dramatically”.

Noten, sin embargo, que los datos no permiten hablar de causalidad entre la descriminalizacion de las drogas en Portugal y los cambios observados en el uso de las drogas. Simplemente se puede hablar de cierta asociacion estadistica, lo que no implica que la descriminalizacion cause dichos efectos (este es un claro ejemplo de omitted variable biass).

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