Reply #2: When heroin is outlawd, only outlaws will use heroin [View All]

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By no means am I advocating drug use or cheering drug addiction. No matter what the substance... heroin, oxycontin, crank, nicotine... dependency is bad, okay?

But I found this thought from the BBC article you linked to quite interesting:

"In the context of all that has happened since, from heroin's link with violent crime to the transfer of HIV among users who share needles, as well as countless other social ills, such an article today would seem unthinkable in all but the most libertarian of newspapers.

The heroin related problems they list (violence and HIV through shared needles), as well as most of the ones they don't, wouldn't be problems if heroin were legal and regulated.