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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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Also interestingly, the UK has the same criminal law relating to drugs across its entire territory, but very different drug use patterns and fatalities in the part of the UK where health, policing, courts, prisons and social care are fully devolved.
The evidence from the UK is that the criminal status of hard drugs is neither the cause nor the solution to the level of fatalities seen in Scotland. It is the whole question of prevention of use and the treatment and monitoring of offenders that’s at issue.