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they certainly did ...they identified the jugular and went for it...they took it off the narcotics list...jobs done....by-passing all the western need to have the i dotted and the t crossed.
now in true Buddhist fashion it is "up to you' what you make of it.
personally..having an armchair seat in the greatest cultural change ever is fantastic ...as is noting all western media are avoiding the subject like the plague just as they have done with the success Portugal has had with their approach.
lets not forget if it hadn't been for the American chemical companies & others political clout in having weed put in the same category as heroin in the world narcotics list it would never have been there in the first place.