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Originally Posted by jfman
Interestingly Portugal has the second lowest, and it went down the decriminalisation route in 2001.
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I am skeptical of drawing conclusions like that though. It could be that both the act of decriminalisation and their lower cases of drug deaths are a result of a general culture around drugs - i.e fewer deaths because it isn't a problem and because it isn't so much of a problem it was political easier to decriminalise drugs?
That said I am generally for decriminalising drugs, especially softer ones, because I think it would free up police time, raising money and allow legal producers to cut out the criminal markets resulting in less exploitation.