What could go wrong? Just look at Seattle. While technically still illegal, IV drug use has essentially been decriminalized. Users have "safe injection sites" where they can get clean needles, the police won't arrest, and there are health care personnel to administer narcan for overdoeses.
Net effect:
IV drug users flock to Seattle. Many are living on the streets. What used to be nice areas of downtown Seattle are now full of urine, feces, used needles, trash, garbage, etc. Drug use requires money and most of these people don't work. Burglarly, robbery, theft have all spiked. Seattle now considers these to be "survival crimes." The offender may be arrested, but won't be prosecuted, and will be back out on the streets shortly. Drug users attract drug dealers. Drug dealing leads to gangs. Gangs lead to narco-terrorists. Law enforcement is leaving Seattle, and the efforts to defund the police isn't helping. It didn't take long for this city to turn into a shithole. In the news, you hear how the Seattle city council is addressing "the homeless problem" - a problem their policies created - by trying to increase funding for healthcare, shelters for the homeless, gov't affordable housing. Everything they do exacerbates the issue, and it's by design.
