Thank you for your kind words.
Stigma is a barrier to getting help. As long as substance use is as deeply stigmatized as it is now, people will hide their use, and we know that men are disproportionately affected among the victims; about 80% are men. Stigma makes it harder for people to reach out. Any measure that we take to reduce the stigma means that people feel more open even to discussing it with a friend or a family member, or a student may reach out to a teacher.
Nothing stigmatizes people more than the criminalization of substance use. We know that a criminal record affects what you can do for education, where you can travel, where you can live and what you can study. That is just such an enormous barrier that we can remove with decriminalization.