Assisted suicide legalized in the Netherlands (in 2002), Belgium (in 2002), Luxembourg (in 2008), and Canada (in 2016). Assisted suicide, where the patient has to take the final action themselves (unlike voluntary euthanasia), is legal in Canada, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland and parts of the United States. In the United States there are assisted dying laws restricted to terminally ill adults in Oregon, Montana, Washington, Vermont, Hawaii, California, Colorado and Washington D.C. The laws require that the patient's attending physician certify mental competence. Oregon was the first United States state to legalize assisted suicide, which was achieved through popular vote. The Act
Decriminalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States average of $11.3 billion per year on courts, police, prison guards and other related expenses. Studies on decriminalization of marijuana in Portugal have indicated it to be a "huge success". Drug use rates in Portugal were found to be dramatically lower than the United States with decriminalization enacted. Teenage use of marijuana in the Netherlands where it is sold legally and openly is lower than in the United States. Uruguay became the first country in the world to completely legalize cannabis in 2013. Some people are in favor of decriminalization and legalization of marijuana simply for the moral stance that