[garinda]

Apparently some GP's already supply clinical heroin Diamorphine, rather than Methadone, to long term addicts, and crime in those areas has decreased.

I can see both sides of the arguments, but under prohibition history has shown us that drugs like prostitution don't just go away, they are just swept under the carpet, and in the long term create more problems for society in general than if they were legalised.

That said, giving addicts heroin in the long term, without making them want to try and rehabilitate, does make it look like a reward. Especially as in parts of the country women whose chances of beating breast cancer if they receive treatment early, are being denied drugs because some health authorities say they can't afford it.

Too difficult a question. I'm abstaining.