Portugal considers cannabis legalisation

**Óttar** · 01-03-2018, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by Viriato

There's no such thing as legal drugs in Portugal, they are only decriminalized. You can't throw a cigarette butt in front of a cop, let alone ingest cocaine. Don't say stupidities or things you're clueless about.

Michael Moore said, "What if I told you I have a big sack of coke..." And the police officer didn't do anything.

**Magnolia** · 01-03-2018, 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by Drow

Based on which research method? Generally, the indicator is annual prevalence, which doesn't reflect what we intuitively mean by "rate of consumption" very well, since the information that someone consumed cannabis at least once in the past survey year does not say anything about the amount consumed, which is actually crucial. Of course, there'd be some degree of correlation, but how much should we extrapolate the data is questionable at best. I'm not saying you're wrong though, just making a point about interpreting the data in the correct way.

You're absolutely right - even WHO use questionnaire survey (alcohol consumption, drug consumption, etc.) and it is highly criticize because cultural differences play an important role - if people answer according to reality or lie (people from some cultures lie they drink/smoke marijuana/whatever more than reality is and some claims the opposite - they are ashamed of consumption). For Czech culture is typical that people exaggerate (every teen kid will tell you he/she smoke marijuana every day but they never even try it - they think it is something huge/big/they will be like bosses when they say something like that)....
And that's the problem. As it goes for alcohol there is several litre difference per capita between "real" Czech consumption declared by sellers (taxes payers) and what WHO claims that the Czech consumption is...