Ah absolutionists. Either we can all drink bleach or we're trapped in some orwellian hellscape of ruination to succor a distant memory of the time we could huff the sweet ichor of airplane glue in peace.
We as a society generally need criminal justice reform, but it wont come at the hands of addressing the illness of addition through exploring space instead. better bus schedules doesnt magically demilitarize the multibillion dollar industry predicated on a loophole in the thirteenth amendment. I can only hope the decriminalization of psychedelic drugs is predicated on sound research but alas, it feels like most SF legislation is brinksmanship between seattle and portland to see who can pedal their city into oblivion fastest with random virtue signalling.