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Nottinghamshire copper reckons that junkies should be prescribed smack on the nhs to help cut crime.

 

At what point do we stop rewarding people for crime or giving stupid treatments for situations they have only got themselves to blame for?

 

I'm not heartless but really, free drugs? I'd rather see waiting lists cut and a hard working granny getting her hip replacement than pay for these wasters.

 

end of rant.

 

m.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/6172392.stm

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Nottinghamshire copper reckons that junkies should be prescribed smack on the nhs to help cut crime.

At what point do we stop rewarding people for crime or giving stupid treatments for situations they have only got themselves to blame for?

I'm not heartless but really, free drugs? I'd rather see waiting lists cut and a hard working granny getting her hip replacement than pay for these wasters.

end of rant.

m.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/6172392.stm

 

You pay now... when you're the victim of a burglary or a mugging, in increased insurance premiums, in the cost of investigating and prosecuting crime and keeping the perpetrators in jail, in treating people who have used dirty needles or bad drugs....

 

The argument is that a lot of crime is committed in order to pay for illegal, and therefore expensive, drugs. If you give the junkies the drugs for free, then they sit around in a stupor all day and don't need to go out and steal, thus limiting the damage caused by addiction to the addicts rather than allowing it to affect the rest of society.

 

Sounds reasonable to me.

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You pay now... when you're the victim of a burglary or a mugging, in increased insurance premiums, in the cost of investigating and prosecuting crime and keeping the perpetrators in jail, in treating people who have used dirty needles or bad drugs....

 

The argument is that a lot of crime is committed in order to pay for illegal, and therefore expensive, drugs. If you give the junkies the drugs for free, then they sit around in a stupor all day and don't need to go out and steal, thus limiting the damage caused by addiction to the addicts rather than allowing it to affect the rest of society.

 

Sounds reasonable to me.

 

Some sense at last! All drugs should be lagalised. Taxed, licensed and legalised. No adverts allowed. Education provided. Nearly all petty crime would stop, and drug dealers go out of business.

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Sounds reasonable to me.

 

I see where you’re coming from and agree to some extent.

However as we all know the problem would be in the implementation of the scheme, lets say the 'addict' has to have a proven track record of criminal activity to get the drug for free... que every addict in the country committing crime in order to get themselves on the scheme. No win situation unless all drugs are made legal and cheap :D

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I'm addicted to Nicotine, and Alcohol, both legal in the eyes of the law... So I can expect free Embassy and Smirnoff?...

 

I'm also addicted to speed, every time I'm able to do so, I do it, so therefore, getting done for speeding will be in breach of my human rights, as they're making me go cold turkey, and I feel bad...

 

(PS - I don't always speed, that's an example)...

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Some sense at last! All drugs should be lagalised. Taxed, licensed and legalised. No adverts allowed. Education provided. Nearly all petty crime would stop, and drug dealers go out of business.

 

Good idea but surely the whole world would have to do it or we would have everyone flocking here.

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I see the reasoning but i can't imagine it working. The drug does not cause them to commit crime they do it because they want it. I don't think there is a single person in the country that thinks it is a good idea to take something like heroin, they choose to do it, they choose not to get off it and then if they do a lot go straight back on.

 

Example of this is prisons, lots of schemes in there to help them off it, some leave prison clean but they go straight out and get a fix. They are druggies because they want to be druggies (in the main) and nothing is going to stop that.

 

Same with smokers, no one who smokes believbes it is healthy but they smoke because they like it, same for going out and getting drunk, not good but we do it anyway. Supersize Me - there was a stupid idea, yes eating McD's for 30 days isn't going to be good for you but you couldn't eat lettuce for 30 days and still be healthy, we know junk food is bad but hey it tastes good. Smack heads are just an extreme form of this, they won't give up unless they want to and i can't see a scheme like this actually making them stop.

 

m.

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Smackheads made the choice to go down that road. It's their own fault. Why are people defending them as if they have a genetic disorder from birth or something?

 

I'd be all for a small enclosed locked "cold turkey" room for three weeks on the NHS. Or a cranial injection of 148grains of lead with a partial copper coating.

 

Alcoholics Anonymous don't provide a free bar do they.

 

-Ian

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they made there choice and i don't see why they should get help. seriously they should be locked up somewhere and just forced to go cold turkey.

makes me annoyed that those guys in prison got a payment of 750,000 for being druggies and not being looked after.

 

the way this Government works i wonder if i tell them i am clinically addicted to fast cars, if i steal one do i get to keep it

 

while we are at it the law should be changed so anyone causing death by driving a car (alcohol related) should be treated as normal manslaughter/murder is, they made choice to drink.

 

sooner they split 'dangerous driving' from 'speeding' the better. you can speed perfectly safely if you are competent driver. their own figures said 5% killed by speeding cars, 38% or therabouts killed by drivers not paying attention.

 

pensioners are get stuffed up royally by this Government and hospitals are closing all over the place.

some woman on TV needed 12UK a day for cancer treatment and they refuse to pay it, yet can help druggies.

 

addicts made their choice, just tell them there is a clinic on some remote island, and bomb them into oblivion. problem solved, and the MOD can test out there new bombs and missiles. :)

 

edited for typo

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