Make heroin a legal drug

YES,I can conceive how much damage and how many deaths 25,000 hits of heroin would probably have caused (The Parap Observer, Letters December 9). None.

As a former injecting heroin user I know heroin causes very little, if any, physical damage.

Heroin has resulted in only very isolated deaths, unlike tobacco and alcohol, which also are directly attributable to disease and injuries, government statistics show.

Why then are our politicians and corporate tobacco and alcohol bosses not swinging from a rope?

Almost all problems associated with heroin are caused by the insanity of the drug laws.

The black market inflates the price, causing hardhip.

Before heroin gets to the streets every dealer has diluted it.

While the cut is rarely dangerous, it means there is no quality control with how much heroin is in the deal.

The Network Against Prohibition believes legalisation will solve the traditional complaints about heroin use.

For wreakers of "havoc and depair (sic)" look no further than John Howard, George W. Bush and Tony Blair with their war on Iraq.

Please stop this madness of judging and condemning masses of people who choose to grow or use a different recreational substance.

Fiona Clarke
The Narrows

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Pubdate: Mon, 19 December 2005
Source: Northern Territory News (Australia)
Author: Fiona Clarke (letter to the editor)
Copyright: 2005 Northern Territory News
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