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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <1129590120.904fd717a69c80c9e193a3edbde2900a@teranews>, AlanG   
    writes   
   >On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:10:31 +0100, banana   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>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?   
   >   
   >See above   
   >"It criminalised drugs use and destroyed a humane system for dealing   
   >with addiction."   
      
   I thought your mention of a number might be to support the (false) idea   
   that banning drugs makes them more popular. Was I wrong?   
      
   --   
   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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