Harm Reduction is based on a simple premise: No matter how many scare tactics are tried, laws passed...

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Harm Reduction is based on a simple premise: No matter how many scare tactics are tried, laws passed or punishments imposed, people are going to get high. Applied in Vancouver, Canada a Radical Approach to Drugs: Let Junkies Be Junkies. I for one believe its a good tactic. You?

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Posted by razano on 18.11.2008

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Posted by Duha on 20.11.2008

Allow me to be cynical here, cause this is not harm reduction... this is like what happened in the early 30's in the US during the great depression. Alcohol prohibition was lifted and the government was able to tax the sales of alcohol. And I think now that we are on the verge of another great depression governments are looking for new revenue streams. So legalize drugs and tax them.

Posted by alma on 18.11.2008

Fascinating. i mainly appreciate the shift from criminalization to public health. Also, the numbers of how much prison and health care costs versus this program are amazing.

Perhaps if the whole world dealt with drugs differently, as they are in Vancouver, then the violence and deaths around them will be much less. But heroin will kill one after a while unless they get off it. Maybe a program like this gives individuals a long enough time to decide to get off their addiction and thus living. Impressive.