I don't think decriminalizing drug use was a strictly liberal policy. That had support from large parts of the right. Where the right and left differed was in

I don't think decriminalizing drug use was a strictly liberal policy. That had support from large parts of the right. Where the right and left differed was in all the programs treating drug addiction that were brought in at the same time. Pamper the poor darlings vs Let them rot in the gutter.