What utter tosh.
You've genuinely riled me with your small minded bigotry.
Haddaway and die you fuck.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:29,
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Haddaway and die you fuck.
whilst I kind of agree with this ^^
I say forced cold turkey all round.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:31,
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Really? Why?
I just went against my libertarian instincts and voted in favour of taxes paying for smack on the BBC poll.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:37,
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The poll is on the story
which is on the news front page, at the top, on the right.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:43,
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Give em as much as it take to kill themselves I say.
Keeps them out our houses and mugging our grannies.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:30,
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^this
I'm with you.
But first, give me back my fucking camera and DVD player you fucking cunts.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:37,
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But first, give me back my fucking camera and DVD player you fucking cunts.
terrorist trade union?
al-qaida?
NEWS JUST IN...
no serious offence intended sir
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:30,
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NEWS JUST IN...
no serious offence intended sir
Well, quite!
He may be perfectly accurate in his statement, but we can't let something like that be an excuse for people to broach unpopular and non media-friendly ideas...
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:32,
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Hell no
Free discussion of ideas is unchristian and, well, frankly... wrong.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 21:13,
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Hey!
I'm Tory as you like, but I still believe that the legalisation of drugs would be of huge benefit to our nation, cut right down on organised crime and prostitution, lower the number of addicts who commit constant opportunistic crimes, reduce the risk of infection and generally make the country a much better place to live.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:37,
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Nah
you have to be a real fucking idiot ALL THE FUCKING TIME for that to happen.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:43,
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That's all very well, but rape, burglary, etc. involve victims.
The crime of taking drugs, almost uniquely, doesn't. Actually, it's not even a crime, if you can manage to take them without possessing them.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:34,
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unless you count yourself as a victim of your own actions
incidentally, if one is snorting cocaine through a straw, without touching it.... does that count as possession?
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:36,
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Financing an addiction can do
is what that police bloke was on about
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:37,
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Smack addicts cost £48000 a year in crime each*
or £12k if we supplied it to them
*Channel Four news
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:41,
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*Channel Four news
Reads fine here
Financing their own addiction = other people being victims of thier resulting crimes!
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:49,
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£12k
if we supply them, while we can cure them of their addiction and after that they wouldn't cost us anything?!
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:45,
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But this "curing" involves a process of weaning-off.
The weaning-off would be best achieved with heroin.
It also requires the drug user to actually want to be weaned off it. Those who don't want to will continue buying heroin, and since it's illegal, they will have to pay the high prices necessary to persuade certain enterprising inviduals to smuggle it into the country stuffed inside dogs and suchlike. I am in favour of the taxpayer paying for it instead, since it would then be semi-legal and much cheaper, due to obviating the need for any smuggling rigmarole.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 21:04,
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It also requires the drug user to actually want to be weaned off it. Those who don't want to will continue buying heroin, and since it's illegal, they will have to pay the high prices necessary to persuade certain enterprising inviduals to smuggle it into the country stuffed inside dogs and suchlike. I am in favour of the taxpayer paying for it instead, since it would then be semi-legal and much cheaper, due to obviating the need for any smuggling rigmarole.
Even better, make it legal, but nobody's given me a poll to vote for that.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 21:06,
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Yes,
but financing an illegal addiction is very different to financing a legal one.
Crime would drop if there wasn't the need to buy from dodgy folks who take advantage.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:41,
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Crime would drop if there wasn't the need to buy from dodgy folks who take advantage.
Whilst,
I didn't expect this sort of debate to rage here (which isn't a bad thing) i don't have a problem with addicts being TREATED to get over thier addiction, what i have a problem with is that many will take advantage of this fact, that they can continue, while as tax payer we will foot the bill.
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Wed 22 Nov 2006, 20:42,
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