Each country needs to have its own thing. In Brazil for example, a measure like this wold not have any impact because we do not have control over our borders.
Take smoking for example. Even if tabacco its alowed, its really expensive to buy legalized cigarrets.
So peoplo just smoke cheap ones, that enter from Paraguai border, with no quality control, and brougth in Brazil by organized crime, or even produced in clandestine factories.
Just legalizing everything here wold not make a diference.
I suspect the Uruguayan approach would work better in Brasil: state-sanctioned legal production and distribution.
The point is to NOT treat it as a business, but to treat it as a treatment distribution. You still charge patients for the consumption but you have to lower the production and distribution costs to the point of destroying the ilegal production/distribution and the para-national organizations behind it.
Governments heavily tax tobacco with the hope of lowering the associated health costs (and tax money is always juicy). But almost all the time it backfires and these happen: -People just keep smoking -It creates an economical burden in house holds with smokers because of the prices and difficulty of quitting -Smuggling or bad quality tobacco consumption increases.
So, like most things government does, intervention with good intentions creates more problems. IMO, government should not interfere with it, and smokers should not get cheap health insurance (or none from government).
MAybe. Still, wold have to be taxed at least as much as cigarrets, and I don't think that people used to consume cheap pot would migrate to legalized one.
Arguably, Portugal doesn't have much control either. They can control their ports but there are no checks of anyone entering from Spain by car and airport security isn't as tight in passport-free Europe as would be intercontinental flights.
Take smoking for example. Even if tabacco its alowed, its really expensive to buy legalized cigarrets.
So peoplo just smoke cheap ones, that enter from Paraguai border, with no quality control, and brougth in Brazil by organized crime, or even produced in clandestine factories.
Just legalizing everything here wold not make a diference.