Dr. Nuno Capaz:

The main difference would be the treatment that we gave cannabis. We put cannabis on the list of all the other illicit substances because, back then, the only condition that the government put on the group of experts that looked into the drug policy change that we were going for was that we should be inside the UN conventions that we signed. Therefore, there was no talk about regulating cannabis. Twenty years afterwards, that argument would be slightly different, not least because some countries decided not to follow the UN conventions and it was not a big deal.