Portugal's Drug Peace through Decriminalization.

No, let's just keep doing the stupid things we're doing, as if there has ever been a society anywhere, ever, that didn't use drugs to alter mindstate.

Portugal's Drug Peace - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine:

"- There were small increases in... drug use among adults, but decreases for adolescents and problem users, such as drug addicts and prisoners.

- Drug-related court cases dropped 66 percent.

- Drug-related HIV cases dropped 75 percent. In 2002, 49 percent of people with AIDS were addicts; by 2008 that number fell to 28 percent.

- The number of regular users held steady at less than 3 percent of the population for marijuana and less than 0.3 percent for heroin and cocaine - figures which show decriminalization brought no surge in drug use.

- The number of people treated for drug addiction rose 20 percent from 2001 to 2008."