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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <9ss7l1p4hh5e6osiu8itttmhlu7i7ra92f@4ax.com>, AlanG   
    writes   
      
   >On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:04:09 +0100, Greg Hennessy    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>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.   
   >>   
   >ISTR there were less than a hundred heroin addicts in the whole   
   >country pre 1971   
      
   And your point is?   
      
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   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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