Lessons Learned from Portugal’s Drug Decriminalization Policy: Educating Students on Alternative Models

“[T]he Portuguese system is comprehensive and integrated, and so all of the agencies. . . and the principles [are] one big integrated system. Where in the United States, we really do not have a unified message. . . [T]he Portuguese system really embraces, "We're trying to figure out what's going on here and solve the problem. . .” [F]or us, it is about punishment for a crime, behavior, whatever it may be.”