Opinion | We Can Thank Drug Users for a Key Approach to Fighting Covid

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Federal agencies advised research grantees to avoid the term; U.S. representatives at United Nations meetings refused to sign health and drug policy documents supporting it.
41% : The concept of harm reduction has helped at least 18 states legalize marijuana by emphasizing the fact that it is less dangerous than legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco.
40% : That's because when doing less harm is the measure of success, harm that's caused by prohibition and law enforcement counts against it, making conventional antidrug policies unsustainable.
35% : After all, if prohibition worked, people wouldn't use illegal drugs, and no such alternative would be needed.

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