> Given how strong the heroin high is and how quickly and strongly physical addiction is, I would not be so sure about that.

Have taken the drug and seen countless addicts, I can be sure on that.

> Portugal has not, in fact, legalised any previously illegal drug, or even fully decriminalized it. Not even cannabis.

OK, but they did make it a health matter instead of criminal matter. The fact the power is no longer in the criminal justice system means it's decriminalised.