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   From: me@privacy.org   
      
   On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:17:10 +0100, banana   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article , Greg Hennessy   
   > writes   
   >   
   >>On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:43:55 GMT, Stephen Glynn   
   >> wrote:   
   >   
   >>>Why, I wonder, would the junkie want to sell his methadone?   Presumably   
   >>>he'll only use the proceeds to buy more drugs.   If it's that he prefers   
   >>>heroin to methadone, then you can solve that problem by giving him   
   >>>heroin in the first place.   
   >   
   >>Quite, especially when smack is less addictive than methadone.   
   >>   
   >>The 1971 act was another one of Ted Heaths wonderful cockups for which we   
   >>all pay the price.   
   >   
   >Could you explain more?   
      
   It criminalised drugs use and destroyed a humane system for dealing with   
   addiction.   
      
      
   greg   
      
      
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