> but perhaps the most anti-leftist aspect of them all is how the show is utterly grim and hopeless and nothing ever changes. all radical initiatives are shut down and ruin lives, and it works more as a cautionary tale than an inspiration.

I think the Hamsterdam concept would be pretty easily implemented at the federal level, which was where it was ultimately shut down from in the show.

It's unfortunate that our federal drug policy is now moving in the exact opposite direction.