They removed any kind of help getting out of the hole here from supervised injection sites because the addicts here have a drug taking union and claimed it sham

They removed any kind of help getting out of the hole here from supervised injection sites because the addicts here have a drug taking union and claimed it shamed drug users implying they had a problem. They claim the problem is prohibition, and that's why they need a safe injection site in the first place because quality of drugs cannot be determined so they're forced to shoot up there to not die from synthetic adulterated heroin. Legalized drugs would absolutely deprive criminals of domestic profits but there would still be gangs that export and fight over that black market. For example large amounts of marijuana in Canada ends up exported to Vietnam and sold at every newspaper stand in Hanoi for premium prices to the new middle class users there. The various gangs shoot each other here on a regular basis for control of that export operation or rob legal grows to get free product. In other words large amounts of money will have to go to export prevention enforcement. The best argument for legalized/regulated narcotics is it prevents this kind of synthetic opioid medical disaster by either prescribing heroin to addicts or selling it without prohibition price spikes due to busts, so the incentive to import cheaper synthetics is gone and drug quality could be more easily identified by the end user. The income from any sales can go to treatment to prevent new addicts but many of us remember having been promised by governments who run gambling/lotteries how that money would go towards gambling addiction treatment and instead it just disappeared into general revenue.