Some people like to use drugs. It's their body, and should be their right. If you have a problem with specific behavior that you associate with drugs - and that behavior negatively affects other people and is not protected - the regulate that behavior.
Cool, and most people don't want to see fentanyl zombies and cracked out people shitting/screaming.
You can go drugs, but in a democracy people like me who don't want to deal with the crackheads will win out.
Since neither crushing supply nor crushing demand seem to actually work at all, maybe it'd be more effective to directly address the problem of the people on the street.
The people on the street didn’t magically spawn as drug addicts.
They chose that life. And they drive the demand.
I am from a third world hellhole and I find it sad that people here can’t just accept personal responsibility. We didn’t even have running water. Instead of doing drugs we chose to persevere and try.
Here you have public libraries with hella resources and so many charities and public services. I mean there’s medi-cal in California and programs for basically everything. I sometimes volunteer at a food bank and they give out free meals..