Posted by Nickengland on June 5, 2005, at 18:46:43
In reply to Re: Decriminalisation would at least be step in right » Nickengland, posted by alexandra_k on June 5, 2005, at 15:34:19
>If you could buy it legally and use it in small amounts in a safe setting it would get rid of the criminal element.
That would never work in reality. Take Heroin for example, ok you take a small amount and after afew times if you enjoy it you are fully addicted. Then you no longer need a small amount as after a while you build tolorance.
The amount you then need is more..and then more, more, more and then more again. The uk is full of any drugs you want and consumption is very high. People who dabble in Heroin start off on small amounts usually smoking it...which then leads on to injecting. At this level (here in the uk) they can be spending £50-£150 pounds a day, 7 days a week.
So they then need on average £700 a week. To get this they rob, steel absoultely everything. I have a friend whos brother is a heroin addict and he even stole and pawned his mothers own wedding ring to get a fix. They have absoluterly no morals as to how they get the money for heroin.
When there not out robbing to get money for heroin, they are more or less in a coma from the effects of the drug.
So if this was made legal you think this work?..no way especially for heroin in the uk.
Also as for getting rid of the criminal element..thats very big business the profits are so big. A dealer selling heroin on the streets gets stupid amounts of profit like 600%+...all the way up the scale is the country who produce the drug, some of those countries reply on the export of the drug crop (gross per captia or something?) for basically the wealth of their country.
Something as strong as heroin will never lose its appeal, im afraid to say thats the truth..
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