Pubdate: Mon, 19 Jun 2000
Source: Age, The (Australia)
Copyright: 2000 David Syme & Co Ltd
Contact:  250 Spencer Street, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
Website: http://www.theage.com.au/
Author: Gerald M. Sutliff
Related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n799/a07.html

FORGET COMPASSION, IT'S SIMPLY PRACTICAL

Compassion be damned. The "practical" reasons for injecting rooms exceed 
any moral price the users may pay for their addiction, whether it be 
regarded as a disease or a moral failing.

The good Father Chifley (Opinion, 13/6) should take the time to learn the 
history of heroin, especially its use and abuse, before it was prohibited. 
May I suggest "The Case for Legalizing Drugs" by Richard L. Miller.

Gerald M. Sutliff, California, US
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