I'd legalise Class A, and provide it for free to all users - to be taken in a "drugs bus".
Thus:
1. Users would have access to drug that are clean and not cut, providing health benefits and reducing medical bills where people have been injecting themselves with bleach.
2. They would be taking them in a clean environment, with available medical supervision in the event of something nasty happening.
3. Petty thieving, housebreaking etc. would be significantly reduced.
4. The nasty types who profit out of selling drugs would no longer be subsidising Al Queda.
5. This would provide a legal market for the white flowers that grow in Afghanistan, thus providing benefit and a commercial crop to a third world place.
6. Diamorphine (polite medical word for heroin) is absolutely as cheap as chips.
It will never happen, but it should. The financial benefits in terms of public health and petty thieving would more than pay for the programme; moreover it is the correct thing to do from a compassionate point of view.
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