Another approach to the war on drugs

I have made postings in the past about drug policy and in particular whether legalisation may control the problem.

Well one country that tried this approach was Portugal and Glenn Greenwald in this post thinks that the policy has been a success after it became the only EU to follow that path back in 2001.

Evaluating the policy strictly from an empirical perspective, decriminalization has been an unquestionable success, leading to improvements in virtually every relevant category and enabling Portugal to manage drug-related problems (and drug usage rates) far better than most Western nations that continue to treat adult drug consumption as a criminal offense.