Sorry dudes. While I’d like to agree with you I don’t believe your contentions to be true. Some drugs fuck people to the point of not being human. This is not propaganda of the drug war it’s simply fact. Krok might be more dangerous than heroin but it’s not like having a bunch of people strung out on heroin is much better. There was a MASSIVE problem with heroin use in Sydney in the 90’s and I’m telling you: it gets nasty.
The misconception about portugal is that hard drugs are “legal”. In fact the laws simply changed the issue from a criminal to a civil/administrative matter. From Wikipedia:
The drug policy of Portugal was put in place in 2000, and was legally effective from July 2001. The new law maintained the status of illegality for using or possessing any drug for personal use without authorization. However, the offense was changed from a criminal one, with prison a possible punishment, to an administrative one if the amount possessed was no more than ten days’ supply of that substance.
It’s a great example of sensible drug law reform because it took a problem that was happening in the unseen underbelly of their society and turned it into a situation where users would not be punished with convictions for being caught they were instead being directed to addiction treatment programs which have consistently been shown to have better outcomes than prohibition and prison.
I would agree that some drugs classed as “hard” would be pretty consequence-free to legalise or decriminalise (MDMA, shrooms, LSD and a bunch of other hallucinogens) but things like heroin,meth and pain meds can turn people into empty useless shells with little connection to any human morals or self respect. It’s not all propaganda.
