Smack my b1tch up

[M_B]

Or alternatively if could be spent on stopping lines of supply including dealers and drug cartels... I must be an old traditionalist

Yes you are, because you still believe it can be stopped.

The facts however are against you.

[AtW]

Or alternatively if could be spent on stopping lines of supply including dealers and drug cartels...

You still have drug addicts who would steal and mug to get money for a hit, the price might go up but this will make them just more aggressive because they need even more money to get high, meaning more people will be killed for not having on them enough money to buy a hit for a junkie.

I say let junkies kill themselves if they wish so - give them all the heroin they can handle. This will cut off distribution because they won't make any money and there will be less crime from junkies because they will be too high to move.

[rootsnall]

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).

Methadone.

They are only playing at 'liberal' approaches though. You would have to make heroin freely available on prescription and drive its street price down to near zero. You'd solve a lot of drug related problems, might create a few also but better than the mess we have now.

[TimberWolf]

Isn't it a bit unfair on those too poor (or not thieving) to sustain their addiction?

I don’t usually like people taking drugs (customs men for instance) but I think this may be a good scheme and it may help bring prices down. How addicted do you have to be to qualify?

[AtW]

They are only playing at 'liberal' approaches though. You would have to make heroin freely available on prescription and drive its street price down to near zero. You'd solve a lot of drug related problems, might create a few also but better than the mess we have now.

Agreed. The only way to solve drug related problems is to let those who do it get high on the cheap and quickly die off rather than carry on their worthless lifes.

[M_B]

Or we provide drugs for addicts in safe places where they can get food, shelter, clean needles, medical advice and help thereby negating the need for them to get drugs on the streets by commiting crimes and negating the demand for the previously mentioned drug cartels and other lines of supply.

[DimPrawn]

In a similar scheme, violent muggers are allowed to go to the nearest police station and get a free wallet stuffed full of £20's.

Result, less crime and reduced prison population.

[rootsnall]

Agreed. The only way to solve drug related problems is to let those who do it get high on the cheap and quickly die off rather than carry on their worthless lifes.

Not quite my line of thinking !

[wendigo100]

Not quite my line of thinking !

Very good. I see what you did there.

[AtW]

Not quite my line of thinking !

I agreed with you, therefore it is your line of thinking now