Your examples are of a national nature (and much smaller/heterogeneous populations). When you have hot spots like Portland and SF they become drug tourist locat

Your examples are of a national nature (and much smaller/heterogeneous populations). When you have hot spots like Portland and SF they become drug tourist locations. Let the people have their drugs. Try to minimize consumption and abuse (and profit motive), and treat such abuse as a health issue, not a criminal one. That is the only sensible and humane way. Easier said than done, of course. At the risk of redundancy, I want to include that proper discussion of the subject requires an understanding of the origins and intentions of these laws. The current system fails in every way except in satisfying those original intentions (hint: not benign).