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From: ashcroft@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Dazed and Confused)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: The mathematics of drugs
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 16:39:37 EDT
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In article <619@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
>My solution: legalize heroin or at least provide free sources to addicts, no
>questions asked,  legalize one or two of the designer drugs which are (relat-
>ively) harmless such as marijuana and cocaine, and keep the real Jeckyl/Hyde
>formulas such as lsd and pcp banned.  And have autos de fe for anyone caught
>selling drugs of any sort to minors.

They have tried this for a long time in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  It has
been an absolute disaster.  Maybe it might work if they dispensed narcotics
only to addicts who checked in to a special institute - they could get all
the drugs they wanted but could only leave if they had been drug free for
say a period of 6 months.