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Legalizing drugs is not the same as promoting them. If you want people to stay away from drugs, then you need to introduce better awareness. Identifying the drug users is one of the most important steps in this. And drug usage has declined in all the countries, where drugs were legalized.
Some people may disagree with me, but I have a different attitude about the legalization of drugs. In countries which have already implemented the decriminalization the results were not encouraging enough. The use of drugs was not an intrusive behavior so the users were increased, which resulted in more deaths. Some Scandinavian countries, had implemented practices to decriminalize the drugs. So the drugs were possible to administer under prescription. After two years and because the results of this effort have increased twice the drug users, these countries were forced to withdraw their programs.