> What non-drug user would want to live in a town where someone shooting heroin in public is not removed from the street? I know I wouldn't. It really depends

> What non-drug user would want to live in a town where someone shooting heroin in public is not removed from the street? I know I wouldn't. It really depends on the broader systematic picture. If drug addicts fear consequences to the point of arming themselves and attacking strangers to avoid arrest and maintain supply, that's bad. If they're able to demonstrate victimless crime, get their gear confiscated and force to keep it to themselves in their own homes or ask for help from the community without threat of incarceration, that's good. So we really have to look at how it plays out in reality. It's not enough to make a black or white decision based on a hypothetical scenario. Furthermore, we need to consider the impact of judgement by police and rehab operators. Familiarity with the individuals and difficult-to-quantify details of each scenario may make the decision between admonishment, incarceration and forced rehab. That said, these don't have to be ambiguous clouds of blurry judgement. We can prototype decision trees and debate about them.