“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.”
Also less deaths from attempting to avoid legal repercussions. Occasionally you’ll hear the horror story of friends dumping the comatose body of a friend that’s OD’ed at a hospital and trying to flee to avoid getting caught.