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Give addicts free heroin, says chief constable
The Independent ^
| 04 February 2002
| Jason Bennetto
Posted on 02/04/2002 2:16:33 PM PST by ThJ1800
Give addicts free heroin, says chief constable
By Jason Bennetto Crime Correspondent, The Independent, 04 February 2002
A chief constable has called for heroin to be prescribed free to Britain's 300,000 addicts. Richard Brunstrom, the head of North Wales Police, wants heroin possession to be decriminalised and people caught with small quantities of the drug to be treated. His comments are the latest proposal by a senior police officer for a more liberal approach to drug use. Mr Brunstrom said pure heroin should be provided on prescription for addicts, because that would remove the need for users to commit crime to pay for their habit. He told Police Review magazine: "Heroin does not make you commit crime; it gets you addicted. If you could get free heroin you wouldn't commit crime.
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Interesting article.
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posted on
02/04/2002 2:16:34 PM PST
by
ThJ1800
To: ThJ1800
Give them all Soma...i.e Brave New world/Huxley.
To: ThJ1800
This guy is essentially wanting us (or the Brits) to pay addicts (in heroin) to not steal. What an idiot.
Better idea: How 'bout we poison the heroin supply?
-bc
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posted on
02/04/2002 2:21:27 PM PST
by
BearCub
To: BearCub
Yes, the Brits.
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posted on
02/04/2002 2:22:44 PM PST
by
ThJ1800
To: ThJ1800
Free Xanax too.
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posted on
02/04/2002 2:30:31 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: ThJ1800
I guess the Brits will also have "welcome packages including heroin and needles" at Waterloo Station in London for all the heroin addicts arriving on the Chunnel train from the continent.
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posted on
02/04/2002 2:35:59 PM PST
by
Dane
To: ThJ1800
If you could get free heroin you wouldn't commit crime. Gee, maybe we could give free Mercedes to car thieves and then we'd cut down on auto theft! And free suitcases of 100 dollar bills to the bank robbers to cut down on stickups. I think this guy is really on to something.
To: Moosilauke
Gee, maybe we could give free Mercedes to car thieves and then we'd cut down on auto theft! And free suitcases of 100 dollar bills to the bank robbers to cut down on stickups. I think this guy is really on to something.LOL!!! my thoughts exactly.
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posted on
02/04/2002 3:28:04 PM PST
by
Tigercap
To: Tigercap;Moosilauke
"LOL!! My thoughts exactly!"
I doubt you not.
To: BearCub
Better idea: How 'bout we poison the heroin supply? Cool. And the pharmacies can stock poisoned Xanax and other drugs for people that show up with fake scripts. And liquor stores can have beer laced with glycol for kids that come in with fake id's.
To: ThJ1800
There has been alot of that same thing shoved down our throats over the last several years here . I like the idea but for a different reason . It is my hope that they all OD on the stuff . I see it as a public service to any society , to be rid of them .
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posted on
02/04/2002 3:48:02 PM PST
by
Ben Bolt
To: ThJ1800
Great. Replace one intrusion by the State with another.
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posted on
02/04/2002 3:52:58 PM PST
by
Redcloak
To: Redcloak
So it appears that not are British Police are Statists. The man has considerable courage to say the truth. Addicts don't generally steal heroin (they would if the could) so the analogys with cars and banks are just wrong. Herion addicts mostly just want to get that nice dreamy feeling and sleep it off. Giving them cheap, free, heroin would allow them to do this with minimal victimization of anyone else. Better yet to have it once again available as it was on the free market 80 years ago, and we had far less problems with "drugs".
To: marktwain
Marktwain writes...
Better yet to have it once again available as it was on the free market 80 years ago, and we had far less problems with "drugs".
Give that man a see-gar.
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posted on
02/05/2002 8:19:34 AM PST
by
Redcloak
To: marktwain
Free booze, free butts, free dope, free women and a chicken in every pot!
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posted on
02/05/2002 8:25:16 AM PST
by
jwalsh07
To: MUDDOG
Free Xanax too. "Just Say No(elle)"
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posted on
02/05/2002 8:28:45 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: Wolfie
You can get anything you want, at Dr. Noel Scidmore's restaurant.
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posted on
02/05/2002 12:35:28 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
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