mjk45 said:
The thing is if you legalise heroin you have a regulated product that cut's overdosing way down, this is exactly whathappened in the UK during the 1950's and 1960's , at that time the use of herion was fairly small and not widespread like the states and was it was mainly dock workers in large international ports places like liverpool working on US ships, these workers where first introduced to heroin by the US sea men in the form of smoking heroin reefers . because of this clustering there was a trial of supplying registered heroin addicts with pharmacy grade heroin that lasted around twenty years . |
That is a dubious thesis, how would lower prices and greater availabilty reduce consumption (or what do you understand by legalisation)? The methadone replacement helps addicts to get clean and mitigates some of the effects, but it doesn't stop new addicts getting into heroin or other hard drugs. To my knowldge there is no developed country that ever legalized heroin or any other hard drug.
