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Heroin users cost less to be maintained than to be put in prison for using heroin and criminalised.
Denmark, Portugal and Switzerland all have successful programs doing this.
The British attitude is a relic of Thatcher and Raygun's war on drugs and people who have had the misfortune to get hooked.
Government schemes to use taxpayers money to pay for drugs for addicts is definately liberal.
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
What about Chavs that are addicted to stealing cars?
Surely it makes sense for the Government to pay for them to have an endless supply of Novas, Clios and Fiestas to rant round the local estate instead of nicking them?
Government schemes to use taxpayers money to pay for drugs for addicts is definately liberal.
Or alternatively more of the tax payers money can be used to help police in investigating the thefts, burglaries, smuggling and gang related crime incurred in supplying the drug addicts habit and also to fund the NHS in its fight against the diseases transmitted between users.
Government schemes to use taxpayers money to pay for drugs for addicts is definately liberal.
They've been doing it for a long time, just it was phrased differently - not heroin but some kind of thing based on it but with obscure medical name (not morphium).
They've been doing it for a long time, just it was phrased differently - not heroin but some kind of thing based on it but with obscure medical name (not morphium).
Or alternatively more of the tax payers money can be used to help police in investigating the thefts, burglaries, smuggling and gang related crime incurred in supplying the drug addicts habit and also to fund the NHS in its fight against the diseases transmitted between users.
Or alternatively if could be spent on stopping lines of supply including dealers and drug cartels... I must be an old traditionalist
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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