Alcohol 'more dangerous than heroin'

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Decriminalisation is different from full legalisation. Decriminalising drugs, as you say, does take away the punishment but is still technically illegal so you wouldn't have companies or governments producing and taxing it. For that to happen it would take legalisation.

No, if you decriminalise both the sale and use of drugs then you could have companies and governments producing them, therefore you could tax it. It makes those acts no longer a crime, although it doesn't make them completely legal, hence the regulation that I think is necessary for the sale and use of drugs.