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Switzerland's Liberal Drug Policy Seems To Work, Study Says
Medical News Today ^
| 02 Jun 2006
| Joe Santangelo
Posted on 06/03/2006 12:37:09 PM PDT by Know your rights
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Swiss Drug Policy Both Switzerland and The Netherlands have harm reduction programs which aren't really decriminalization. Addicts are self supporting because they have to be. If your drug addiction causes you to be a danger to yourself or society you must seek treatment or they will lock you up. They offer treatment and help to get you in shape to hold down a job, but you can't just kick back and get free drugs.
Both countries are tougher on organized crime than we are. They don't tolerate drug gangs fighting over turf. Law enforcement is used where it does the most good, and the heroin supplied to addicts is pure and cheap. Drug cartels can't make money pushing dope in those countries.
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posted on
06/04/2006 11:59:45 PM PDT
by
mugs99
(Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
"Imagine that. A study, published in the media, showing how effective a liberal policy is."Oh, you're being too harsh. They're balanced -- the media also publishes studies that show how ineffective conservative policies are.
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
"If it were doing this with anything other than drugs, libertarians would condemn it..."Excellent point!
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
"I'd like to see personal growth decriminalized."Decriminalized (still illegal, but treated as a misdemeanor for X number of plants or less) or legalized and regulated (legal growing limited to X number of plants by those 21 and over)?
To: Know your rights
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Are you a libertarian?I don't consider myself a libertarian ... nor do I "support" the Swiss program (although I do regard it as less objectionable than drug criminalization).
So do you have an example of a libertarian who supports Switzerland's heroin maintenance program?
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posted on
06/05/2006 4:57:07 PM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: A CA Guy
for you drugs = freedom?For me, freedom = freedom to choose or not choose drugs, junk food, skydiving, and other self-risking non-rights-violating acts (as well, of course, as all non-self-risking non-rights-violating acts).
Get it yet?
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posted on
06/05/2006 5:00:31 PM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: philman_36
Why don't you let RW state what he meant? I wasn't aware that I had prevented him.
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posted on
06/05/2006 5:02:17 PM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: Know your rights
Get it yet? Yes, I always got the fact you love drugs and seem to lean heavily toward anarchy.
The drugs and other things you want to do cross the line in encroaching on your neighbors rights, safty and freedoms.
So unless you move to that island where the consequences of your actions don't hurt others, you aren't going to get to live your dream of all the various vices and so forth.
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posted on
06/05/2006 6:40:32 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: A CA Guy
The drugs and other things you want to doI don't want to do drugs; stop telling that lie.
cross the line in encroaching on your neighbors rights, safty and freedoms.
How does drug use encroach on anyone's rights, safety and freedoms? How does it do so more than use of the drug alcohol, whose banning you have consistently refused to support?
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posted on
06/06/2006 3:02:03 PM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: Know your rights
If you don't want to do them, why push them so hard on others and post so many drug posts? About 490/500 are all pro drug posts.
It's like you talking about the advocating men wearing panties all day long while then saying you never wear them, but spending hours each weak posting how great that is... makes no sense.
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posted on
06/06/2006 3:35:00 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Know your rights
How does drug use encroach on anyone's rights, safety and freedoms? Great drug activist line and every junky reading it would agree with you.
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posted on
06/06/2006 3:40:54 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: A CA Guy
why push them so hard on othersI don't push them on others; stop telling that lie.
and post so many drug posts?
Already answered: "I don't know of any other subject where freedom is so vigorously argued against on FR."
spending hours each weak posting how great that is
I've never posted that drugs are great.
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posted on
06/10/2006 9:20:33 AM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: A CA Guy
How does drug use encroach on anyone's rights, safety and freedoms?Great drug activist line and every junky reading it would agree with you.
That doesn't answer the question. Do you have an answer?
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posted on
06/10/2006 9:21:22 AM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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