Yes it does:
“Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success,” says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney, author and fluent Portuguese speaker, who conducted the research. “It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does.” Read more »

Courtesy of the Digital Journal:
Juárez police chief Roberto Orduña Cruz resigned Friday after the drug cartel killed six city police officers this week and threatened to kill more unless he left the force.
“I cannot place my sense of duty above the lives of my officers,” said Orduña in a press conference…
More than 300 homicides have [...] Read more »