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NO! I'm totally against decriminalisation, I want to see all drugs legal, the decriminalisation position seems really mealy mouthed to me, 'we'll let you do these naughty things, but we won't let you import them, we may incarcerate you for selling them' patronising crap! I've gone into prisons working with drug addicts for over seventeen years now and it's a total distraction, you can't legislate against human behaviour the very idea is nonsense, if the billions wasted detaining addicts, and the billions futilely spent at our borders and the billions the petty crime committed by addicts costs our society was not pissed away in morally indignant wank like this, then the issue of when someone's addiction required an intervention would not be clouded by criminality and there would be the money for detox. While I'm on the subject, in the 50s, 60's and early 70s if an opiate or cocaine addict went to their doctor and asked they were put on a heroin or cocaine prescription. Prescribing methadone is evil, all it does is stave off withdrawal and keep addicts sick in their illness, nearly all addicts use street drugs on top of their methadone they have to, it doesn't replace that which they are addicted to, the withdrawals from methadone are a whole order worse than heroin and last for months rather than days.
All violence is committed under the influence of drink, is a statement which is almost true, those sociopaths who are ready to hurt others without a skinfull are really rare thankfully yet although the removal of alcohol would all but end violence in our society I see no calls to prohibit it, America's social experiment in prohibition resulted in millions bingeing on low quality or even poisonous alcohol because of the cachet of forbidden fruit, it's obvious that legalising drugs would bring a decrease in their use and make our society more functional and richer.