Article Related content Article metrics Rapid responses Response Rapid Response: Reply to John L B Carter Dear John L B Carter Thank you for your comment. The article was externally reviewed, as it states. It is a fact that Portugal decriminalised minor personal drug possession 15 years ago. Here is the text of the legislation in English, on the website of the Portuguese drug agency of its Ministry of Health http://www.sicad.pt/BK/Publicacoes/Lists/SICAD_PUBLICACOES/Attachments/9... Or see this BBC news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/823257.stm Richard Competing interests: No competing interests 21 November 2016 Richard Hurley features and debates editor The BMJ
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Reply to John L B Carter
Dear John L B Carter
Thank you for your comment. The article was externally reviewed, as it states.
It is a fact that Portugal decriminalised minor personal drug possession 15 years ago.
Here is the text of the legislation in English, on the website of the Portuguese drug agency of its Ministry of Health
http://www.sicad.pt/BK/Publicacoes/Lists/SICAD_PUBLICACOES/Attachments/9...
Or see this BBC news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/823257.stm
Richard
Competing interests: No competing interests