Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is defending his proposal to decriminalize all drugs, saying it’s more effective to keep addicts out of jail and offer them treatment. While treatment is certainly better than jail time in some cases, an all-out decriminalization of drugs would devastate our cities.
How do I know? I live in Seattle, a city in Washington that has decriminalized personal possession of illicit drugs to disastrous results.
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