This seems HUGE! OK so we woke up this morning only to hear that a luxury yacht

[Beastly Boy]

15. Thanks for the link. An interesting study.

Having an entire country as a subject is, in this case, more helpful in reaching wide-ranging conclusions that are not limited to matters of addiction. Even though Portugal didn't legalize drug use (it was merely decriminalized it), the effects appear to be wide-ranging. Still, the case of Portugal is not about allowing one the freedom to do what one wants with one's body: there are still penalties, enforced on a progressive scale, for even individual drug use. And drugs, as I understand it, are not legally available for sale, with wholesale distribution of drugs still forbidden and criminally punishable.

The Portugal experiment appears to point to the middle ground between completely criminalizing drug use and completely legalizing it.