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Legalisation, no, but decriminalisation, yes:

Take for example Portugal: Almost 1% of the population was addicted to heroin a couple of years ago, as the country moved away form a dictatorship and found freedom (also coming from a colonial war). With decriminalisation, and by treating addicts as patients, instead of criminals, the panorama improved greatly.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-d...



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