Going on a tangent: you can remove almost all of the drug problems than are not 'drug use' problems, by simply legalising drugs.
You can even tax drugs quite a lot, and still keep the blackmarket small.
You can even tax drugs quite a lot, and still keep the blackmarket small.
Taxation in California has proven to be a huge incentive to black market growers who can grow and sell tax free. The legal seller has the weight of taxation.
Your suggestions are basically a recipe for greater disaster.
What's different for those other drugs? Or should we (re-) criminalise alcohol and tobacco, too?
I agree that decriminalisation is a strange halfway measure. And I can also believe that not all policy in practice is great, even if the bears the label of 'legalisation' or 'decriminalisation'.