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Originally Posted by Zulu29
For all intents and purposes it disappeared. The people you know were likely committing other offences or being a general nuisance and the arrest was made to move them along. Did they get formally charged? The argument that decrim is something revolutionary is a straw man.
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This isn't true. I shared an office with a criminal lawyer. from 2017-2022ish. A large part of his business was helping guys in their 20s who'd been caught with a bag of cocaine and charged.
A problem with the semi-decriminalization, of the last 20 or so years, was that it was so arbitrary when the police chose to enforce it. Giving police discretionary decision making on when to or not to enforce a law is generally a bad idea.