...and yet, here we are: the decriminalization part was successfully implemented, and the treatment part was not. It doesn't matter how or why the treatment as

...and yet, here we are: the decriminalization part was successfully implemented, and the treatment part was not. It doesn't matter how or why the treatment aspect of that measure failed: it only matters that it did. The reality, as clearly laid out by the article, then reiterated by me, then by you, is that drugs were decriminalized and people addicted to those drugs did not receive treatment. We are on the same page here. What needs to happen now is to resolve the treatment failure.