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And who gets to foot the bill for all of these new addicts? The cigarette companies have been used for years for killing people. Imagine he amount of people u
by paulhauggis 12y ago
And who gets to foot the bill for all of these new addicts?
The cigarette companies have been used for years for killing people. Imagine he amount of people using for ods.
Tort reform would also be need for this to ever work.
- njs12345 12y agoSome countries have experimented with state supply of heroin to addicts - it's actually a really cheap policy and seems to work well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin-assisted_treatment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin-assisted_treatment Obviously, the taxpayer is footing the bill for this, but total spending reduces (through the reduction in drug related crime).
- fabulist 12y agoThis is already being done in Portugal. I don't think the new addicts you're imagining would materialize. If you want to do meth, it isn't hard. Legalizing it doesn't make it that much easier. You get addicted to meth because it complements your personality, not because you have access to it.
- lucisferre 12y agoAnd yet cigarette use is in decline.
- aliakbarkhan 12y agohttp://www.theawl.com/2012/04/vancouver-supervised-drug-injection-center http://www.theawl.com/2012/04/vancouver-supervised-drug-inje...
- jliptzin 12y agoFirst, I don't think we'd see a surge of new addiction like you expect. Second, we are already footing the bill for drug addiction, plus the violence it causes, plus the extra policing, plus legal costs, plus incarceration costs. Even with a surge in addiction, we'd still come out far ahead of the current situation.