Pete Buttigieg's Plan Would Decriminalize Possession of All Drugs

Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg released a plan on Friday that would decriminalize the possession of all drugs as a way to address the nation's opioid crisis and improve mental health care. Under his plan, titled "Healing and Belonging in America: A Plan to Improve Mental Health Care and Combat Addiction," a Buttigieg administration would seek in its first term to treat addiction and the opioid epidemic as public health problems instead of criminal ...