Portugal did not legalize the sale, possession, and use of drugs. For those already addicted, they changed possession from a criminal to an administrative offe

Portugal did not legalize the sale, possession, and use of drugs. For those already addicted, they changed possession from a criminal to an administrative offense. So it’s decriminalized in one aspect, but far from legal. Producing and selling drugs is still illegal and still targeted. Their system sounds a damn sight more beneficial to society than ours, but it’s still a far cry from the “all drugs are legal” experiment being proposed here. My instinct says that “legalize and regulate” works better for the vast majority of drugs, and “decriminalize possession but not sale or manufacture” for the rest. There wouldn’t be much call for meth if MDMA or coca products were cheap and legal. Opiates wouldn’t be spiked with fentanyl if they were regulated. This is just my guess, and I wish I had data to point to. Maybe something can be extrapolated from Portugal’s outcomes, but the situation is not the same. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal