Portugal, 12 Years after Decriminalizing Drugs

[Angrboda]

My recollection of U.S. statistics is that drug and alcohol abuse is no more prevalent among those on welfare than those not on welfare. What this says about the rates of recreational, non-abusive drug use, or use among the poor, are things I would need to investigate, but I suspect the idea of poor people using drugs more frequently than the rest of society may very well be based on nothing more than stereotypes and a desire to demonize the character of the poor.