Hard Drugs should be legal

[Tribesman]

They have the NHS in England. Dope Junkies get clean needles and product that is not poisoned. Here in the US you have Junkies who get their kids to tie off their arm while they shoot up, not knowing how potent the product is. They end up ODing infront of their kids. This happens here in New Jersey. If they had an NHS-like program, the junkies would get graduated doses that would slowly wean them off of the drug and the potency would be the same every time so they would know exactly how much to use without killing themselves.

Do they ? I thought you had the same methodone "support" programs that most other places have , with the slight difference that over in the States they will actually give a bigger supply to the patients than elsewhere . It has been suggested that the US policy of giving a months supply to junkies rather than a daily or weekly supply has led to the sharp increase in fatalities from people overdosing on this "safe" clean product .
Another problem with your post on weaning them off and the regulated potency of the supplied narcotic is that like the illegal narcotic it is used to replace it is addictive and its potency diminishes with use .

As for the topic itself ? a tricky one isn't it .
Regulate and tax it , control supply and attempt to control demand , good idea but will it work ?
Smack is illegal , some smackheads are complete wasters , utter dicks who really deserve to to take a long walk off a short pier , others can get on with their lives hold down a decent job support their familes and be fully productive members of society .
Alcohol is legal..........and all the same applies .
Now it can be said that legalising drugs and taxing them will remove the criminal element , alcohol and tobacco are legal and taxed after all . Yet both are produced illegally and sold , and both are legally produced andsold but then illegaly smuggled due to diffences in taxes . And you only have to look at some of the real unsavoury characters involved in cigerette smuggling to seethatthe "eliminatingcriminality" aspect of the arguement has some serious leaks in it .