End the war on drugs and alot of the police work will vanish.
In the U.S. they'll need to sort out the opiate crisis which frankly is weird to see anyway because it's the corporations who are the drug barons.
In the U.S. they'll need to sort out the opiate crisis which frankly is weird to see anyway because it's the corporations who are the drug barons.
In my native Norway, punishment for almost anything is quite mild including drug related crime. Yet drug usage is much lower than in the US.
We are all more similar to the US than Japan, being all derived from European culture.
The pressure to ban cannabis outright came from US influences when Japanese legislation was passed in 1948, meth infact is actually the most used illicit drug today.
Arguably Japan is rife with benzodiazepine abuse, several varieties of which can just be bought and consumed freely there.
Perhaps more importantly, the jails and prisons will empty.
Important to look at the whole picture. Even if we were to decriminalize all activity for all drugs, and assume 100% of drug crime inmates don't deserve to be there and should go free, it would nowhere near "empty" state and local prisons.
Also important to note that the vast majority of those incarcerated for drug crime are not in for possession, and even most people in jail for possession pleaded down from more serious charges.