Why decriminalize all drugs, instead of a few?
The distinction between light and heavy drugs makes less and less sense, and already from the 90’s it made little sense scientifically. There are drugs with different levels of danger, but these levels are changing. The plants have undergone genetic alterations, they have been manipulated, and in some cases the content of the active substance has increased by 15 to 10 times, as have the psico-gênic effects that these substances cause. That means that the distinction makes little sense. I have seen people who are heavily addicted to so-called light drugs, and people using so-called heavy drugs in reasonably light ways. The issue has more to do with the relationship each person establishes with the substance than with what the substance itself is. That is what led us to decriminalize all substances. Results have been positive… We adopted dissuasion as a mechanism, but I would not like to exaggerate the effects of decriminalization. I think decriminalization has been very good because i
