I do not know about Portugal, but that is absolutely not how it works in Switzerland. >No shady drug dealers on the streets Patently false from my experience,

I do not know about Portugal, but that is absolutely not how it works in Switzerland. >No shady drug dealers on the streets Patently false from my experience, what cities do you have in mind? From my own experience absolutely not the case in Lausanne, Geneva, Montreux, Zürich or Basel. In Lausanne Flon area they will literally line up to offer their wares on Saturday night at around midnight - 1 AM with absolutely no regard for the police. Riponne is even worse hearing from people who still live there. >Less and less drug consumers each year Is that like for hard drugs only or in general? Might be true for heroin/crack, absolutely not true if you include weed. In cities like Lausanne the amount of times you smell weed on the streets has gone up massively in the last 10 years.