Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
What do you think of it?
I agree with you about this Crocodile!
I wrote a paper about this at university and got told off and humiliated in front of the whole class because I had the "wrong" opinion. The conclusion in my paper was that this approach should be adapted to local conditions and tried here. This opinion was not acceptable.

This approach is called "harm reduction" and it has been tried in a few English cities and in the Netherlands. For actual local addicts it was really successful - they were able to sort out their lives, get jobs etc.

The problem in the Netherlands is that although the system works well for Dutch addicts, it attracts people from other countries who are not eligible to participate in the programs and who have a lot of problems including criminality and diseases.


WIKIPEDIA
Harm reduction (or less commonly known as harm minimisation) refers to a range of public health policies designed to reduce the harmful consequences associated with recreational drug use and other high risk activities. Harm reduction is put forward as a useful perspective alongside the more conventional approaches of demand and supply reduction.[1]

Many advocates argue that prohibitionist laws criminalize people for suffering from a disease and cause harm, for example by obliging drug addicts to obtain drugs of unknown purity from unreliable criminal sources at high prices, increasing the risk of overdose and death.[2] Its critics are concerned that tolerating risky or illegal behaviour sends a message to the community that these behaviours are acceptable.[3][4]