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December 1, 2008
Swiss Voters: Yes to Heroin, No to Pot
How's this for schizophrenic moonbattery:
Swiss voters have approved a radical health policy that offers prescription heroin to addicts on a permanent basis.
Final results from the national referendum showed 68% of voters supported the plan.
The scheme, allowing addicts to inject the drug under medical supervision at a clinic, began in Zurich 14 years ago before spreading across the country.
But in another referendum vote, 63% of voters rejected the decriminalisation of cannabis.
Apparently marijuana isn't sufficiently destructive to win voter approval. But if you lace it with PCP and rat poison, you might be able to get the Swiss to pass it out for free.
On a tip from conservativeteen.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 1, 2008 8:59 AM
Comments
BAYER the company that makes ASPERIN used to sell HERION as a COUGH MEDICINE
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 1, 2008 7:15 PM
Actually, the prescription of heroin and cocaine as a treatment used to be used to great effect in the UK. It would be prescribed as part of a broader strategy of taking the addict out of their usual environment and rehabilitating them so that they could give it up. Then they baned it and replaced it with methodone, which is actually worse than either of those two...
The point was, if they would insist on taking the drug, it was better to have them taking something that could be controlled and kept clean.
Posted by: Archonix at December 2, 2008 2:15 AM
