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That's true. Many of their addicts are self supporting and no drain on the taxpayers.

It's hard to suggest they're not a drain on the taxpayers when the rate of welfare dependency is at 28%. Before the liberalization of Switzerland's drug laws, the rate was at 17% (Britain is 18%, Australia is 17%, US is 14%).

Regardless, even if what you say is true, and Switzerland has an abundance of productive heroin addicts in the workforce, it doesn't change the fact that they have no idea whether or not decriminalization has actually led to diminished heroin use. And that was the main finding of this study.

Your bias is showing

I wasn't trying to conceal it. Then again, I'm not getting paid to conduct surveys on social issues.

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It's hard to suggest they're not a drain on the taxpayers when the rate of welfare dependency is at 28%. Before the liberalization of Switzerland's drug laws, the rate was at 17% (Britain is 18%, Australia is 17%, US is 14%).
ROFL!!!
You rant against the use of statistics in one post yet use them in the next! What is your source for those percentages?

it doesn't change the fact that they have no idea whether or not decriminalization has actually led to diminished heroin use. And that was the main finding of this study.
They do know that decriminalization has not led to the increase in heroin use that opponents of decriminalization predicted.

Deriminalization has not led to an increase in drug use in Switzerland or the Netherlands and that is the most important fact of all. I would cite the statistics but you're opposed to statisics when used by those other than yourself.
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