I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. That's, to my mind, one of the best aspects of Portugal's system: they treat drug abuse as a medical problem, and offer

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. That's, to my mind, one of the best aspects of Portugal's system: they treat drug abuse as a medical problem, and offer free treatment. In the US, offering treatment like that would probably be decried as welfare-state redistributory nonsense.