[anigbrowl]

They shifted a significant chunk of money to health services.

But everyone knows this, it's the obvious corollary of decriminalization and has been stated over and over.

[Spooky23]

If you live in the United States, a significant number of people believe that getting sick is a moral failure. Drug use? Forget it.

[bdamm]

How? It's entirely possible to decriminalize and simply move law enforcement monies to other efforts, leaving nothing for health services.

[TulliusCicero]

It's technically possible yes, but decriminalization is generally proposed as a component of a larger strategy called "treating addiction as a health issue rather than a criminal one".

[bdamm]

Your belief in functional, rational government is encouraging.

[TulliusCicero]

I think it's possible, although sometimes it doesn't feel so. :)

[anigbrowl]

Why do you think that is relevant to anything since it's not what actually happened? It seems like you want all the content of every article shoehorned into the few words of the headline. That's not going to happen.