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**UMATURLIN** · 04-08-2012, 01:41 AM

The point I was basically making is legalisation is a long way from decriminalisation. While decriminalisation is working in Portugal, you haven't provided examples of legalisation working and you can't automatically say that things will improve (in terms of addiction rates/crime) the more you legalise just because the further down the criminalisation road you go, the worse things can get.

No, it is not far off, only for people like you who live in fantasy land.

We have already seen what making substances illegal does during the era of prohibition and only the re-legalization solved the issue.

At the minimum we need to decriminalize drug use, no one can argue that.

04-08-2012, 01:41 AM	#31
UMATURLIN Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 446 Senior Member	The point I was basically making is legalisation is a long way from decriminalisation. While decriminalisation is working in Portugal, you haven't provided examples of legalisation working and you can't automatically say that things will improve (in terms of addiction rates/crime) the more you legalise just because the further down the criminalisation road you go, the worse things can get. No, it is not far off, only for people like you who live in fantasy land. We have already seen what making substances illegal does during the era of prohibition and only the re-legalization solved the issue. At the minimum we need to decriminalize drug use, no one can argue that.
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