burn one down

This is nice and all, but the point of drug criminalization is not to decrease dangerous drug use or protect the sweet innocent children or whatever the fuck the idiots yap about.  It has been obvious for many years that prohibition is a miserable failure at those stated goals, ergo cogito, the stated goals aren't the real ones.  They're diversions, conjured for public consumption, in service of narrow sectors of interests, force-fed by a complicit media.  

A prominent story about how one nation's decriminalization of drugs led to decreased drug abuse across the board is only relevant in The Greatest And Best Nation On The Face Of Jesus Christ's Sweet Earth to the extent that it helps the unwashed masses (1) see through the charade and (2) fight against it.  In other words, it doesn't matter.  The Portuguese are just a bunch of Euro-fags.