between the ages of 15 and 24. A similar decline was noted among the population who had ever used a drug and continued to do so. Portugal also overcame its reputation as a country with high drug-related AIDS deaths.

Uruguay, which became the first country in the world to legalise the production and sale of marijuana in 2013 is probably also worth a visit, while Switzerland, which pioneered heroin assisted treatment in 2008 which was subsequently adopted by Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom, are also worth a look at for countries that have ‘won the war on drugs’ without committing democide.

In the meantime prison populations in both countries consider to swell with people charged with small-quantity possession offences.

In the Philippines, 46,276 inmates, or almost 50 perpunk music

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Generation Putin

Airs Sunday, September 22 at 6 p.m. It's been over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Young people in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Georgia are facing unemployment, democratic pressure, and the legacy of repression, while being influenced by the West, punk music, and the Pussy Riot trials. PRX sent a reporting team from the Seattle Globalist to explore the tensions in these countries, described by The Atlantic as 'uneasily suspended' between two political eras. Join host Brooke Gladstone for Generation Putin, an in-depth look at the millennial generation in the post-Soviet states.