> This concept that some Nordic countries made all drugs legal and everything was great Nordic countries are actually rather (in)famously known in Europe as ha

> This concept that some Nordic countries made all drugs legal and everything was great Nordic countries are actually rather (in)famously known in Europe as having strict drug laws. > Making drugs illegal is a major deterrent to doing drugs. Obviously, but people still do so many drugs, and the numbers are increasing. This is despite relatively very few countries actually even decriminalizing (_not_ legalizing) drugs. From my own experience living in the Netherlands, weed being legal means tourists come to smoke it, but a lot of the Dutch are just completely uninterested, including teenagers. If you had given me easy to access cheap weed at 16 I would've been blazing all day, but I didn't come from a place where it's legal. Dutch teenagers did. Second order effects such as perception of drugs are a thing that must be considered as well.