Sir, a " The way to stop drug dealing, drug related crime, the spread of aids due to dirty needles (a drain on the NHS and getting worse) and the criminal drug industry is simple. Give the drug addicts their drugs. Shock, horror. But consider this. If clinics were set up to give the drug addicts their fixes free they would not have to pay the dealers and the financial structure of the criminal drug industry would collapse. Also the recruiting of youngsters to become addicts would stop. If nobody needed to buy the drugs where is the profit in that.

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