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| Shaleen Title, Commissioner of the Cannabis Control Commission |
«Couldn’t this policy make dangerous drugs more available to those who currently have no access to them?
Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001, and there were fears that by taking away criminal penalties, crime and drug-use rates would go up. That hasn’t happened. Several Massachusetts legislators recently visited Portugal to try to learn from that model because it was so successful.»
Fotografia de Joanne Rathe/Boston Globe Staff
