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- From: bz269@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James D. Del Vecchio)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: legalization in Britian
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 02:14:15 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Dec28.013009.29984@tc.cornell.edu>
- Reply-To: bz269@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James D. Del Vecchio)
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- In a previous article, homer@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Homer Smith) says:
-
- >
- > I just saw a brilliant show on 60 minutes about the
- >relegalization of heroin and cocaine in Britain. Apparently
-
- Brilliant because you agreed with it? I saw the show,
- and I was glad to see the subject, but there was nothing new
- or brilliant about it. What was different was the segment may
- have be
- considerd poor taste 5 years ago.
-
-
- > In fact they have to take weekly urines test to prove that
- >they ARE still doing the drug and not selling it to others for
- >a profit.
- I think that was an initial urine test to make sure they
- are on drugs to start with.
-
- > With the drug free and pure, the health of these people
- >climbed back to normal levels, a vast majority of them immediately
- >stopped any criminal activity they were involved in to support their
- >habit, and the drug dealing in those areas went to 0 because there
- >was no market for it.
- >
- > The number of addicts dropped by 300 percent, because there
-
- You mean 75%? %^)
- > The drugs are provided through drug stores, often as heroin or
- >cocaine injected into a cigarette. The addict provides the cigs,
- >the drug store provides the drugs free.
-
- The store provides the drugs for a charge, and for some
- of the addicts, the taxpayer picked up the tab. None of it was
- free.
- >state run operation. The quality control is excellent, nay perfect,
- >and the addicts are all known and can be tracked, and many of them
- >cut back on their own doses willfully after a time.
-
- A more common situation, I'd bet, is the doses purchaced
- stays the same and the surplus is sold.
-
-
- > He said that 50 percent of addicts get off of drugs by
- >themselves within the 10 years of start of addiction, and this
- >program makes sure they stay alive, healthy and productive. The
- >remainder stay addicted, but they too stay alive, healthy and
- >productive.
-
- Or alive, healthy, and on welfare.
-
- >
- > Drugs and marijhuana are not illegal because the vast majority
- >of Americans believe that they should be so, they are illegal because
- >a few jokers passed the laws through congress with the promise
- >of kickbacks to the law makers.
-
- That plus the vast majority of Americans believe the they should be
- so.
- > Homer
-
- Jim D
-