This is an amazing article. I agree whole-heartedly.

There is one problem. Many European solutions are impossible in the states for a variety of reasons:

• Some percentage of Americans will simply refuse to "subsidize" drug use no matter how much empirical evidence you have that it could work
• That same percentage above would rather punish drug users and resist reframing it as a public health issue
• Some percentage will be convinced that such measures will represent a creeping socialist threat
• Others will not trust the government to correctly spend the tax revenues earmarked for such programs (and they may not be wrong due to the entrenched, corporate cronyism in the US)

I hope we are some day able to address these issues in a sane way!