Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2012
Source: Washington Post (DC)
Copyright: 2012 The Washington Post Company
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Author: Robert Sharpe
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n211/a02.html

SHORT OF LEGALIZING HARD DRUGS

There is a middle ground between drug prohibition and full 
legalization. Switzerland's heroin maintenance program has been shown 
to reduce disease, death and crime among chronic users. The success 
of the Swiss program has inspired pilot projects in Canada, Germany, 
Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands. If expanded, heroin maintenance 
would deprive organized crime of a core client base. This would 
render illegal heroin trafficking unprofitable and spare future 
generations addiction.

Robert Sharpe, Washington

The writer is a policy analyst for Common Sense for Drug Policy.
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