If the new heroin users tend to be less violent than the old, there's a case for being gentler... although I can't help but wonder whether there might be some s

If the new heroin users tend to be less violent than the old, there's a case for being gentler... although I can't help but wonder whether there might be some substance behind the NYT's clickbait-y racial angle on the matter. Large-scale use of heroin is pretty terrifying, regardless. Remember that the Japanese made heroin legal and cheap in China during WWII, as a way of ruining the Chinese people... It's unsettling to see the US paying through the nose for the privilege of similar self-destruction.