Portugal drugs were decriminalized and you'll never guess what happened:
Why should a patient require a prescription to get any medication, including narcotics? If a patient wants the assistance of a physician, they should seek the assistance of a physician. Patients should have the same right to get their own Synthroid as I do my own. If they want to obtain Oxycontin for their pain, they should have every right to go down to their pharmacy and get it. Deregulate medicine and you make it much more accessable to the masses at a cheaper price. But without all that regulation, the government would fail to support its own self fulfilling necessity. In Portugal, we see the legalizing drugs does not create addicts. Addicts create addicts.
