If it were any other area of public health, people would naturally accept the idea that there needs to be a spectrum of interventions and that each area of intervention has a role to play.
Let's take the example of Czechoslovakia, which decriminalized drugs. When it did not get the hoped-for result, it criminalized them again. Then it decriminalized them a second time, but in a different way. It's a learning process. It's not that some things are fantastic and some things are terrible. Each thing is terrible and fantastic at the same time.