Unless there is something to take the place of criminal penalties when the drug usage becomes a public policy problem you are just going to have a growth in addiction.
But when local governments can no longer enforce or even have vagrancy laws or other means of getting users off the streets and in front of a judge their hands are tied. I also seriously doubt most local governments have the budget to provide facilities for addicts.
The result is a lot of piss in the streets.
“when local governments can no longer enforce or even have vagrancy laws or other means of getting users off the streets”
If states can clear the way for abortion clinics, other business entities should be entitled to Amendment XIV equal protection of the law.
“12 of the states and the District of Columbia prohibit blocking the entrance to and egress from clinic facilities.”
“8-ft. zone within 100 ft. of door”
“25 feet if ordered by police”
“Noise, Trespassing”
“Noise, Odor”
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/protecting-access-clinics
“when local governments can no longer enforce or even have vagrancy laws or other means of getting users off the streets”
How about creating a federal offense of obstructing the operation of a commercial business district?
“Corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding is a felony under U.S. federal law. It was enacted as part of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002”
“The crime is codified as 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2). The relevant subsection reads:
(c) Whoever corruptly—
(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or
(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
“The term “official proceeding” is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1515(a)(1) to include proceedings before federal judges, Congress, federal government agencies, and regulators of insurance businesses”
“The majority opinion, written by Judge Florence Pan, stated that a ruling on the meaning of “corrupt intent” should wait for another appropriate case to reach the court, but a concurring opinion by Judge Justin Walker explicitly adopted a narrower definition that “a defendant must intend to obtain a benefit that he knows is unlawful”.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstructing_an_official_proceeding