The Wire and Free Drugs II

CNN Praises UK Government for Giving Drugs to Junkies

By Carolyn Plocher | October 14, 2009 – 17:03

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England can’t afford to help Alzheimer’s patients pay for their medicine, but it can offer free shooting galleries to heroin addicts.On Oct. 14 CNN’s “American Morning” aired a segment about the controversial program that “gives heroin to heroin addicts at the taxpayers’ expense.” Correspondent Paula Newton declared, “A safe, steady supply of heroin is apparently just what the doctor ordered … As radical as it is, for some it is really working.” She also said that the British government’s decision to dole out 97 percent pure heroin – “better than anything sold on the street” – “takes heroin off the streets.”

I wrote in a post that gained a lot of comments about how I liked the HBO series The Wire, but I got annoyed the season they slightly advocated the legalization of drugs and trusting the same government who can’t win the war on drugs against cartels to win the battle of cleaning up the drug business by legalizing it.

In that long post, I said I didn’t see how legalization of such highly addictive drugs could not lead to exactly what we see above in the UK.

– The easier the drugs are to get, and the more people willing to try them once they are legitimized.  And the more people who try it means the more people who end up using it habitually and then addictively.

And then what?  You either make the drugs free to them or you watch them rob the world blind — just as they do now…but worse….