[andrepd]

Those "other quotes" are personal hunches and random people on the street? "I asked random people on the street", really? Come on...

The simple fact is that after drug decriminalisation in 1999 the number of (1) new HIV infections and (2) overdose deaths fell to less than half in a couple years.

After cuts in funding, it started performing worse. Who would have think.

[mike4ty4]

Yep, exactly - get rid of the alternative methods and leave no method and then that's a problem.

[fragmede]

which, governments behave stupidly because that's patiently obvious but what did the US do with that opioid crisis? got rid the method, oxycontin, left no legal supported method, leading to street heroin, and hey guess what we have a huge problem with today.