That's kinda what happened. If there is a country that had anything to do with it, it's Saudi Arabia, yet the US invaded Afghanistan and called it a day.
Those are very small bodies though, so the law of large numbers doesn't come into play that much. What's proposed here (disclaimer, didn't read the article, but been a proponent of sortition for a long time) is to compose democratic bodies like congress, parliament, senate, etc. by sortition, where the large number of members should remove some of that randomness. Also, could it get much more random than some of the lunatics currently in congress?
Great summary, shame most people are so easily convinced by the billionaire class that taxing them would somehow affect themselves, that it's all the immigrants' fault, or that all the rich people would move away and then who's going to create all those jobs?
There are several countries that basically did this and no, the stats don't change. In fact, de-criminalizing those drugs has lead to a decrease in usage and associated deaths in all cases I'm aware of.
It's the US, the most laughable shithole country on the planet, what do you expect?