Comments on: The Costs and Benefits of Needle Exchange http://www.laurencecaromba.com/2009/08/07/the-costs-and-benefits-of-needle-exchange/ Politics, culture and foreign affairs Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:41:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Son of Apes and Pigs http://www.laurencecaromba.com/2009/08/07/the-costs-and-benefits-of-needle-exchange/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Son of Apes and Pigs Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:36:45 +0000 http://www.laurencecaromba.com/?p=1575#comment-164 "In short, the state can not use needles as a policy instrument to reduce the prevalence of drug use amongst the population." Surely it has been shown by now that there is nothing states can do to stem the prevalence of drug use among their populations- especially when the drug dealers have far more influence, motivation and funding than the agencies designated to combat them? If giving out clean needles is okay then why not let the state sell clean drugs. If people are gonna use then they are gonna use. In my mind it would be far more preferable that the billions spent on using don't get into the hands of criminal and terrorist thugs. “In short, the state can not use needles as a policy instrument to reduce the prevalence of drug use amongst the population.”

Surely it has been shown by now that there is nothing states can do to stem the prevalence of drug use among their populations- especially when the drug dealers have far more influence, motivation and funding than the agencies designated to combat them?

If giving out clean needles is okay then why not let the state sell clean drugs. If people are gonna use then they are gonna use. In my mind it would be far more preferable that the billions spent on using don’t get into the hands of criminal and terrorist thugs.

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