Posted by paulbwell on April 4, 2005, at 18:57:46
In reply to Re: Oxycontin » paulbwell, posted by ed_uk on April 4, 2005, at 18:27:00
> > IMO, all recreational drugs should be legally available from 'licensed' outlets. If people want to take the risk then let them! The DEA and other such unpleasant agencies do more harm than good. Heroin addicts would be much better off injecting (known doses of) pharmaceutical heroin than the (unknown doses of) contaminated cr*p that they buy on the streets!
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> Also, crime could be greatly reduced in the UK if more heroin addicts were prescribed heroin on the National Health Service. Prohibition has been a massive disaster. The next time someone gets mugged/murdered, their car gets stolen or their house gets broken into because someone is desperate for their next fix, just think how much easier it would be if we just gave them what they wanted. Pharmacetical diamorphine isn't particularly expensive, the government could easily provide it to registered opiate addicts. Sorry about the rant :-SNo, lets keep building more prisons,filling em' up (50%) for personal drug use (crime)?, taking up more time, judicial, police, and wasting another $75 or is it up this year to 100 billion? USA, of honest law abiding citizens tax dollars, into fighting "the drug war"- cos its working isn't it?.
yer right, it sure is:
-protecting the Pharm companies MAINLY.
-the seen to be 'winning' governments war.Ask any Police constable 'on the beat' in your country or here down under, on say, Fri Sat nights and they will tell you Alcohol should be a class A drug, and the drug policies you outlined bought in.
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