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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (218779)	9/6/2007 12:34:18 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (2) of 793750

A kilo of heroin passes through six different dealers in the supply chain before it reaches the veins of a Londoner. Each link in the chain demands a fat fee for risking jail. This means heroin costs 3,000 percent more than it would in a legal, risk-free market - so a heroin addict must steal 3,000 per cent more to buy it; 3,000 per cent more grannies mugged, 3,000 per cent more homes burgled. That's why so many police officers are now coming out in favour of unpicking hard-line prohibition and prescribing heroin, with Howard Roberts, the deputy chief constable of Nottinghamshire, joining the queue yesterday. They know from the experience in Switzerland - an ultra-conservative country that now nonetheless prescribes heroin - that it is a silver bullet (or syringe?), bringing crime rates crashing down. Nice summation of the situation.

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