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Not as openly as they are after legalization.Drugs are already used openly.
I've lived in states where pot's legal. I've lived in states where it's illegal. I've also lived in a state before it was legal and after it was legal. The difference of its public use, obvious public intoxication, and its culture in public sight before and after legalization is night and day.
Legalize hard drugs and bums will start shooting up in public instead of their tents or they will more often go to public bathrooms and leave needles behind and blood spurts on the bathroom floor. Evidence: in pot-legal states, you see blunt wraps, marijuana product packages, and used paraphernalia littered in the streets everywhere.
They'll feel more emboldened to walk around public malls, streets, and restaurants without worrying about getting arrested for obvious heroin intoxication. Evidence: in pot-legal states, you will smell smoked marijuana everywhere -- malls, bathrooms, walking around in public, sitting down to eat in an expensive restaurant from the table next to you, etc. all day every day.
They'll feel less self-conscious about hanging around in groups of obvious drug users (whereas before they'd be worried about getting stopped + searched for drug possession doing this) in public.
Businesses will feel more free to cater to these people or make innuendos in their advertisements to them. Etc.
It's just not something that most people think about with drug legalization or decriminalization. However, it's the worst part of drug legalization or decriminalization for the normal citizen.