Full legalization is the optimal solution but this is still a political problem. To pass something like this, you have to pander to a lot of stupid idiots who m

Full legalization is the optimal solution but this is still a political problem. To pass something like this, you have to pander to a lot of stupid idiots who may be persuaded to accept decriminalization but not full legalization, even in cases where the two are semi-equivalent. I think generally decriminalization is pushed for because of such wider support and the chance that it might and has succeeded in the past. Of course, once drugs are decriminalized, legalization is the next step. The reason for such roundabout tactics is that the opposition is not rational.