Mexico drug wars: 24 dead in 24 hours

[billy]

Prohibition creates an artificially high price level for the prohibited commodity.
If you were a heroin addict, and needed a fix 3 times a day, and each fix only cost, say, $5, then you would be no more likely to engage in economic crimes than a nicotine addict who needed one or two packs of smokes a day.

Crimes are committed as a result of substance prohibitions.
Criminal activity associated with prohibitions are therefore not a good reason to perpetuate the prohibitions.

so that works out as 15 dollars a day for seven days.

105 dollars. not bad considering heroin addicts struggle to scarpe together even a few dollars a day.

where will they get this hundred a week from and you do know what tolerance in relationship to an addictive drug is don't you?

the tolerance with heroin is a lot worse than it is with smoking.
do you really believe every kid and his dog won't try it if it's legal.

do you know how many underage alcoholics their are? how many under age drinkers and smokers. these legal drugs you're on about

imagine making heroin as freely and cheaply available.

back to the cheapness. have you never seen junkies begging for pennies in order to get enough for a fix. my daughters ex asked her for twenty pence about 30 cents, when she was home last weekend. she told me it broke her heart to see him begging. and thats all he was doing. begging people for 20 pence. she said it looked like he hadn't eaten for a weak.

heroin is dirty drug, the cheaper it becomes the more it gets used. it's often a ploy used by the dealers. they give a small bags away to first time users to try then sell the next bag nice and cheap then sell all their next bags at the full price because the kids hooked.

smoking three cigarettes doesn't have that effect.

no lets turn to the family on welfare;
if one takes heroin the odds are most of them will take it so for a family of four users that would be 420 dollars a week.
1280 dollars a month. it's a guarantee that no one in the hous will be working.

where do you think they get the money. you thing they get that much welfare? you think they dont need a roof. many can't afford a roof. they have no money. not even 5 dollars.

now back to health care;
if you sell heoin legally you'll just put healthcare under a strain it could never recover from/

at present smoking related diseases account for about 15 % or more of the health care bill, it could be as high as 25% i can't remember.
legalize heroin and watch it take over from smoking as the major cost of the health care system.