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For decriminalization to work effectively, there needs to be an actual effort for it to work effectively nation wide. We need to have the proper socially safety nets in place along with the decriminalization.

Otherwise, we've seen what happens. The flood of harder drugs, and drugs more commonly spiked with harder things like fentanyl that are now flooding in due to the severe over correction from other laws federally, or in other states that have made it increasingly hard to get anything from the medication you have been previously prescribed to some brand of far less dangerous opiate you were previously addicted to, funnels everyone who is addicted to opiates towards the most extreme option, fentanyl.

And this funneling of almost anyone who either is prescribed opiates, addicted to opiates, or who will get addicted to opiates to fentanyl is what is killing so many innocent people. Decriminalization needs to actually be done right to be effective.

If someone who is addicted to heroin, oxycodone, morphine, etc could go get these things discreetly, legally, and with the complete assurance that they are not cut with anything, drug overdoses would be halved, if not quartered overnight.

We've seen first-hand hand in this country that tightening drug laws and regulations has the complete opposite effect of what we want it to. This is how the fentanyl crisis was created in the first place.