at last, some fucking intelligence is being used in the fight against the drug dealers.



instead of trying to get rid of them by capturing tham all and going to the enormous expense of a trial, an experiment is under way to remove their market by giving heroin away free.



sensible people have been saying for years that this should be done.



now i may be a little bit silly, but isn't this what used to happen in this country when we had a very manageable couple of thousand heroin addicts (pre-1973) and what stopped happening in 1973, since when the number of addicts has gone up to over a million?



expect politicians from all parties to decry this experiment as a threat to civilisation and the end of life as we know it, because it'll almost certainly show how dumb they've been for the last 30 years in criminalising drug use. it'll almost certainly reduce the number of heroin addicts (because they'll be under no pressure to buy the fucking stuff) and get rid of some of the scum-bags who ruin children's lives with bad drugs - because their customers will be down the pharmacy getting nice, clean drugs for nothing.



i think it utterly stupid and unforgiveable that our politicians, under pressure from the u.s., made it illegal for doctors to prescribe heroin to registered addicts and, by doing so, kicked-off the massive heroin problem we're experiencing.



now, call me a cynic, but isn't it nearly always the case that the people who are most vociferous in calling for anything to be prohibited are those who stand to gain financially by that prohibition? so, shouldn't an investigation be carried-out to find out which of the american and british politicians or capitalists who were screaming for world-wide prohibition of heroin and other drugs have made millions, or billions, of dollars through the illegal sale of prohibited drugs? they are the real criminals, not the street-level dealers and certainly not the users who are forced into a life of crime to finance a habit they simply can't afford.