> Technically, being high on heroin in a public place isn’t a crime.
That's hard to believe. If it's apparent to anyone else, it will be a crime in a few different ways. For example:
> A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he or she:
> (1) Engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior; [or]
> (2) Makes unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or addresses abusive language to any person present
( https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/25/11.441 , apparently a rule of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but the crime exists everywhere with somewhat variable definitions.)
That's hard to believe. If it's apparent to anyone else, it will be a crime in a few different ways. For example:
> A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he or she:
> (1) Engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior; [or]
> (2) Makes unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or addresses abusive language to any person present
( https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/25/11.441 , apparently a rule of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but the crime exists everywhere with somewhat variable definitions.)