Maybe they should take Portugal's example: https://news.vice.com/article/ungass-portugal-what-happened-after-decriminalization-drugs-weed-to-heroin
From my perspective, it's now about actually helping people, it's about government control. If it's about helping people, we already know what works: legalize it all and help those who are self-medicating because of other issues in their life.
Yeah, the Portugal use case is what many people are proposing. The current government is filled with old-school machismo, that they somehow miss the point of helping people, instead their approach seems to be "look at me, I'm helping people so stand with me or get out of the way"