• Tammo-Korsai
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    131 year ago

    There’s already evidence in the UK that a progressive approach works, but it has been forgotten about. Middlesbrough police trialled a scheme where they provided heroin users with their fix. All of a sudden, the users stopped committing offences to raise money for their habit, which in turn deprived dealers of a lucrative source of income.

    • Echo Dot
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      1 year ago

      It’s not been forgotten about it’s been buried. They were not happy when they were advise to reclassify marijuana as a class C. That’s where we got the famous line “the public are tired of experts” from.