Isn’t the whole point of decriminalization that we won’t have to spend as much money enforcing laws and locking people up? Funny how you never hear anyone sound the alarm about lack of funding in the early stages when everyone’s talking about what a success decriminalization is, only when the dark side of such policies start showing. “We knew this would happen all along!”
No that's not the whole point not even close , decriminalization works in reducing human suffering by using the money spent of emprisioning humans and spending it on programs etc .
Would you prefer to spend the money on arresting people and keeping a large prison population or would you rather spend money on rehabilitation programs? Either way you're going to spend money, but I think that the latter approach would help more people.