Extract from Portugal Digital

The researcher Celia Morgan, of the Beckley Foundation and Fellow of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, presented a study that shows that legal drugs, such as alcohol, are much more harmful to the brain that some forbidden drugs, such as marijuana. "These data can help in the reflection of the parameters used to classify which drugs must, or must not, be legalized and to reconsider that some forbidden drugs are less harmful than others which can be found in pharmacies, for example".

For Peter Reuter, economist, professor of the Department of Criminology of the University of Maryland, the legalization of drugs such as marijuana and cocaine, for example, would diminish crime, but would increase consumption and habit. "It would be a positive measure for the poor who are the ones who suffer directly with the drug issue, as there would be a reduction in violence. At the same time, it would be negative for the middle class, due to an increase in consumption".