Heroin should be legalised

old hippy

Eric Cartman wrote: »

not heroin

Maybe you should try it after all, might calm you down, brother

Badgermonkey

If specialist dispensaries with the requisite medical / social checks and balances in place were allowed to prescribe opiates, death from impurities in heroin and drug related crime by users would not occur in anywhere near the present numbers.

A lifting of prohibition on certain narcotics should be trialled to allow for a considered medical, academic, sociological and economic appraisal of such a scheme.

Humans eh!

conorhal wrote: »

Anybody that wants it can get free class A drugs from a licensed clinic as long as they register themselves as a state drug addict.

Drug dealers and other vicious criminals have to seek alternative employment.

what casual drug user is going to register with the state as an addict just to try out a class A drug?

Enter the Dealer.
good post though.


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Logical Fallacy

karlog wrote: »

Meh, i glanced through it, saw the words heroin and legal. Then i thought of Dublin and nope, no good can come of this.

Out of interest how many heroin junkies do you think there are in Dublin?

I am really curious.

thebaz

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

Out of interest how many heroin junkies do you think there are in Dublin?

I am really curious.

i believe there is upwards of 20,000 people daily consuming opiates in the Dublin area - mainly legally obtained methadone - 15,000

thats a lot of people - so they can't all be tarnished with "junky" tag , what may come as a surprise - many are law abiding regular citizens, who need something extra to get by, in the crazy Ireland of today

Craebear

Not in my backward Catholic "how are ye mary?" sher isn't life grand lets go out and cut some turf, Ireland.

partyatmygaff

Craebear wrote: »

Not in my backward Catholic "how are ye mary?" sher isn't life grand lets go out and cut some turf, Ireland.

So you're for the legalisation of Heroin then? If any drug should be legalised, it should certainly not be heroin.

starviewadams

Safe injecting clinics (like this place: http://supervisedinjection.vch.ca/ ) would be a good start,doubt we'll ever see the day where heroin (or any other illicit substance) is legalized here. Methadone addiction is already state sponsored so I don't get how legalizing heroin could be any worse as methadone obviously isn't solving the problem.

Metallitroll

just as well its Tl;DR so i can just ignorantly say 'get to fúck'

heroin should be legalized. i'll take that at face value ta v. much n say nah :rolleyes:

Craebear

partyatmygaff wrote: »

So you're for the legalisation of Heroin then? If any drug should be legalised, it should certainly not be heroin.

I would have free heroin handed out to addicts for starters. Reduce the need for them to go out and mug some old ladies for cash. No point in prosecuting for small possession, doesn't achieve much.

Killer Pigeon

I'm a chocoholic. I can't get enough of it. I get these deep yearning for chocolate during the day and I just can't help myself, it's ruining my life and my health. I'm going broke because of it.

I went to Chocolate Addicts Anonymous (CAA) but that was no help. I even went to rehab for chocoholics when things got really bad. That didn't help either as I was able to get my hands on chocolate too easy afterward and things just started to spiral out of control again. Chocolate has effected me and people around me.

I am in my present state simple because chocolate is so freely available in shops and even in vending machines on the street. The Irish government must make the sale of chocolate illegal; it ruins peoples lives. I say this because I know the damage chocolate did to my life.

Ban Chocolate,
Save Lives!

Brought to you by the Chocolate Prohibition Association.

MitchKoobski

People have died and had their lives absolutely ruined though heroin use, so no.

orourkeda

Thucydides wrote: »

Firstly, I’m not a drug addict or user of any drug legal or otherwise. Alcohol, yes, though I’m not a huge fan of it.

So, why?

I, like most people, would never have imagined myself saying such ‘heresy’. However, I’ve changed my mind after reading a very eye-opening article by Nick Davis, a writer at the Guardian newspaper. Davis is one of the most respected investigative journalists in the UK and was winner of UK Journalist of the Year some years back.

The article itself, there’s a few of them, was originally published back in 2001 to accompany a documentary on Channel 4, Drugs – The Phoney War.

Needless to say, it caused quite a response

Have a read:

http://www.nickdavies.net/2001/02/01/what-s-wrong-with-the-war-against-drugs/

Jesus wept

orourkeda

MitchKoobski wrote: »

People have died and had their lives absolutely ruined though heroin use, so no.

As with gambling, alcohol, tobacco and other legal substances.

orourkeda

Craebear wrote: »

I would have free heroin handed out to addicts for starters. Reduce the need for them to go out and mug some old ladies for cash. No point in prosecuting for small possession, doesn't achieve much.

Doesn't that just mean they are mugging us legally so to speak.

biko

MinnyMinor wrote: »

necro??

When you bring back a thread from long ago. Necro's gets locked.
If there is new info then a new thread can be started.