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Immune in a recent campaign appearance, pete buttigieg called for decriminalizing all drugs. heroin, meth, crack, you name it. >> incarceration should not even be a response to drug possessi possession. >> across the board? so if it is meth or coke or ecstasy, any drug, incarceration isnt. >> thats right. >> mark: andrew yang is also calling for the same. >> mr. yang, you want to decriminalize the possession and use of small amounts of opioids including heroin, how would that solve the crisis? >...

At a recent campaign appearance, pete buttigieg called for decriminalizing all drugs, heroin, meth, crack, you name it. >> incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession. >> is that across-the-board? meth or coke or ecstasy, any drug, its possession come incarceration? >> thats right. >> mark: buttigieg isnt the only one, andrew yang is calling for the same. >> mr. yang, you want to decriminalize the possession anl use of small amounts of opioids, including heroin. how would that...

Doing that? and what do you say to critics who argue well, okay, any candidate who just gives out money on the campaign trail is going to win some plaudits. >> the great thing is you have to make a policy real for americans. we can talk about giving everyone a thousand dollars a month. but then when you see it in the hands of mallory shannon or the other two families ive done this for in other parts of the country, then you realize that a thousand dollars is going to hurt virtually no one. its g...