President Duterte decreased Crime Rate in the Philippines by 13%!

[mjk45]

numberwang said:

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.

I think you may need to reread what I wrote, I never mentioned lower prices or that the UK legalised Heroin across the board, what i did was talk about a TRIAL that lasted around twenty years and i also mentioned that the reason the trial got off the ground was that at that time in the UK heroin use wasn't widespread  you have to remember where talking over 60 years ago and they had a cluster of heroin users to run what was basically a social experiment.

the only reason i mentioned it was it confirmed that  regulated pharmacy grade heroin cut down on overdoses , not as an advocate to the effectiveness of legalising heroin.