Portugal’s experience in removing criminal penalties for drug use almost 25 years ago offers a real-world case study.
Can compassion and public health succeed where criminalisation has failed? Astro Awani’s Melisa Idris speaks with Superintendent Rui Filipe Lourenço Costa from the Lisbon Metropolitan Command of Portugal’s Public Security Police; and Dr Nuno Capaz, a sociologist with the Lisbon Dissuasion Commission. They were both speakers at a drug policy summit in Malaysia on 4-5 November.
Produced by Astro Awani
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