"1.) Dealers have learned to take advantage of the personal use amount protection by keeping small amounts on their person and a stash nearby." This is not a p

"1.) Dealers have learned to take advantage of the personal use amount protection by keeping small amounts on their person and a stash nearby." This is not a problem for me, as I believe drugs should be legal, and neither users nor dealer should be penalized. On points 2 and 3, regarding drug gang violence: This is a problem with the half-way measure of decriminalization as opposed to full legalization. When drugs are fully legal and manufacturing/selling them is legal then there'll be no shootings over drug turf any more than Phizer and Merk shoot each other over the sale of Viagra. "4.) It’s too early to judge, but so far it’s looking like the rate at which addicts who are offered resources to help them actually accept that help is very low." What "help" are you talking about? Grown adults whose lives are absolutely miserable often turn to drugs because it's the one source of pleasure, even ecstasy that they have in their life -- the drugs are so intensely fantastic that they eclipse nearly everything else they've ever experienced, to a degree non-drug users can't even imagine.... and then someone offers to take that away so they can go back to their miserable lives with no hope of escape? Why wouldn't they refuse?