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"Unfortunately that's about the only resource I can think of when it comes to drug legalization/decriminalization in an actual real world environment."

Marijuana is effectively legal in the Netherlands. (Technically illegal, but "tolerated")

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Due to a loophole, for a year you could legally buy psilocybin mushrooms in the UK, in "head shops," on market stalls, online, anywhere, with zero regulation. It was fine. The government eventually banned them out of embarrassment. The public information posters announcing the upcoming ban had a rainbow coloured fractal background. It was pretty funny.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4692359.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4691899.stm

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