As a psychonaut in Oregon, I am suppose to have it made right.

Where is the safe access to a clean regulated product I was promised here after my vote for measure 110? Oh wait, that only comes with legalization.

Decriminalization allows the pro-drug war shills to say: look we tried, and all we got was more violent crime. This is because decriminalization increased consumer demand by relieving consumers of legal liability but put a larger legal target on sellers and producers. This high risk/high reward dynamic, still outside of a regulated and accountable business model, will naturally devolve into violent territoriality over desirable consumer bases and retail locations. As the thriving dispensary system revealed, legalization does not create this sort of destructive dynamic. It seems like a model that worked to reduce drug crime existed but a more moderate (read: less effective) solution was put to the voters for political advantage (to shore up urban voter participation by making it feel like 'better' drug laws were on the table, without scaring the soccer moms) and Congratulations Commissioner Gordon, it worked. And as planned it doesn't work.

Decriminalization is a tar-pit trap meant to rob anti-prohibition movements of political resources fighting for a half-measure that takes public opinion backwards on the greater issue of normalizing recreational drugs. Hack your trip-postive environment by only devoting time and resources to solutions that work, and make sure 'decriminalization' is off that list.