XPost: uk.politics.drugs, uk.legal   
   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article  "Aidy"  writes:   
      
   >What evidence do you have that drugs would be cheaper if legal?   
      
   The fact that legal pharmaceutical cocine is about 100 times cheaper than   
   illegal cocaine.  The fact that legal pharmaceutical heroin is about 100 times   
   cheaper than illegal heroin.   
      
   >Maybe more heroin addicts commit crime to find their habit because they are   
   >more likely to be of low moral fibre in the first place?  And less able to   
   >hold down a proper, steady job?   
      
   Contradicted by trials in Germany where they gave heroin addicts access to   
   pharmaceutical heroin at cost and clean needles at cost and a safe place to   
   inject, and a significant proportion were able to hold down jobs while being   
   addicts.   
      
   And the ones who didn't get jobs cost the government far less than those on   
   the street.   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
   "The country couldn't run without prohibition.  That is the industrial fact."   
      
   					-Henry Ford   
      
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