“There’s always the hope that states function as laboratories of democracy, and when one state does something that makes sense and seems to work, that other states will adopt it,” says Davis. “Arrests went way down, overdoses didn’t change: To me, that’s an improvement over the previously existing system.”

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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the stats, a shift over 1 year is not representative though, even more so because it was during corona, which everyone knows fucked up all social statistics

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      Crime was the only one that was represented in back to back years.

      I think the key stats are the 12 year high for overdoses, and the significant rise in drug use, quite literally since the program went into effect in 2001. Even the sewage measurements, being the highest in Europe, is pretty grim.