It’s the room temperature IQ people who actually think that decriminalizing something that is addictive will make crime go down.
To be perfectly honest, I bought this argument when I was younger, so obviously I’m no genius. derp.
The idea is that you take the profit incentive away from organized crime. The problem is, the state has to take control, and what does that mean? The state competes with street dealers, and they still need law enforcement in order to try to protect their monopoly.
If you don’t have ‘dispensaries’ on every corner, then junkies will go to the most convenient local source. If you do have them on every corner, then you have junkies standing around on every corner lighting up (or cooking, or snorting, etc), and people in stupor on the sidewalk. Either way, you have people desperate for their next fix without a source income, and that’s a bad combination when you also have a no-cash-bail and a minimum larceny threshold.
Enabling doesn’t work.
It’s just human nature common sense.
Just look up Kensington Avenue in Philly on YouTube.