> Less criminalisation inevitably means less drug harm. Any other stance can only be made in bad faith. That is in itself an extremely bad faith statement. >

> Less criminalisation inevitably means less drug harm. Any other stance can only be made in bad faith. That is in itself an extremely bad faith statement. > Just look at relative harm numbers, the stats (especially at something like the EU level) are available publicly. Yes, look at them. They do not support your statement because you are asserting that the corellation is basically linear, but I was talking about an (entirely hypothetical) scenario that is completely outside the data, namely full legalization. No EU state has legalized heroin or cocaine. The poster boy for decriminalization is Portugal, but they haven't even legalized use, let alone production or distribution. They have merely turned use into an administrative offense rather than a criminal one and are providing a lot of harm-reduction services. There is a huge difference between that and full legalization where big business spends billions on advertising to market addictive substances - which is the situation we have with alcohol that leads to a lot of harm.