If things like improving drug purity wasn’t a goal of decriminalization, then I don’t think it makes much sense to judge decriminalization on those axes. I cert

If things like improving drug purity wasn’t a goal of decriminalization, then I don’t think it makes much sense to judge decriminalization on those axes. I certainly wasn’t expecting decriminalization to produce the results you list. I would be surprised if there is a single policy that could accomplish all three of the (a), (b), and (c) goals. I thought decriminalization is meant mostly to tackle (c) in that if having and using drugs isn’t a crime, then the number of drug offenses that end up in the courts should go down.