MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL During a week-long stay in Portugal where drugs were decriminalized across the board in 2001 I saw only one substance being publicly abused: alcohol. Portuguese drunks were nowhere to be found. Scottish ones however had fanned out across downtown Lisbon chanting and singing for their soccer team Celtic FC after a 2-1 loss to SL Benfica. A group of middle-aged men in green-and-white jerseys verbally abused a hat peddler on Avenida da Liberdade. A rubbery-legged son attempted to hold his near-comatose father upright who nevertheless managed to avoid spilling his beer. A drooling man in his sixties ...