Posted by ed_uk on April 4, 2005, at 19:33:04
In reply to Re: Oxycontin YES!!!, posted by paulbwell on April 4, 2005, at 18:57:46
Hi P!
>No, lets keep building more prisons,filling em' up (50%) for personal drug use (crime)?
In the UK, maximum 7 years in prison + an unlimited fine for the possession of one MDMA tablet. Give me a break! These are not the people that we should be filling our prisons with! Taking an MDMA is risky but it ought to be a matter of individual choice for adults over the age of 18, I do not consider personal drug use to be a crime. At least if people could buy recreational drugs from licensed outlets they would know what they were getting and what dose. At the moment, people just pop an 'ecstasy' pill having no idea what drug it actually contains or how much. The risk of overdose is high.... if people have been told that a particular pill is 'weak' they are likely to take a few. Then when it turns out that their pills each contained a high dose, they will be in need of a visit to the ER!
Atm, a lot of opiate addicts do not accept treatment because they do not want methadone. Some heroin addicts are not interested in treatment, they have every intention of continuing to use it. We would be better of just giving them heroin because drug crime is common. My mother was recently threatened by a man with a knife, he wanted her money for drugs.
Ed.
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