Mexico drug wars: 24 dead in 24 hours

[billy]

If you legalized opiates, wouldn't the population that's addicted increase?

drugs like e's cocaine, weed and speed could be legalized without much harm.
the opiates as vf rightly says has been a fairly constant addiction on the same amount of people. however when it was available in Victorian time many of those who could get it freely did get it freely. as of now heroine is seen as a dirty drug and many stay away from it. it's a drug of high addiction rate after it's first use. and almost guaranteed addiction rate after its second or third use.

to legalize heroine would turn it into a much cleaner drug in the eyes of the population and more would take it. anyone who sells heroine needs to be wiped off the face of the earth.

anyone who advocates it being legalized is either naive or stupid and i'm sure vf is far from stupid.

i've worked i the clinics and heroine addiction is like nothing you could imagine till you've know two or three people die from it. till you've seen the dead carcass of a junky riddled with flat blue veins and weeping track marks.

heroine should in my mind never be made legal.