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The ""war"" on drugs seems to be pretty successful in some countries where illegal drug usage is quite low compared to others.

• bit-anarchist 5mo ago
  Certainly not on the US, or any country where the criminalization is in full force.
  • cubefox 5mo ago
    > Certainly not on the US We don't know how much higher the drug usage would be if all drugs were legalized. > or any country where the criminalization is in full force. That's an extremely general statement which is almost certainly wrong.
    • bit-anarchist 5mo ago
      > We don't know how much higher the drug usage would be if all drugs were legalized. Given what we know about the prohibition era and insights about the success in the fight against drug abuse, it's a pretty safe bet. > That's an extremely general statement which is almost certainly wrong. Is it? Even the most successful countries, like Japan and Singapore, seem to have low drug usage despite of criminalization, not because of. Even then, the data is murky, because criminalization of usage incentivizes low self-reporting.