* Free Heroin.
Another head of a police force has suggested that heroin be given free to junkies and the suggestion has received the usual tirade from the media and the usual loud mouths. The first reason that this suggestion is greeeted with derision is the still strong streak of protestant ethic that runs in the country. The feeling is that these people will be receiving an enjoyable experience for free.
Heroin was once given to junkies but a concerted newspaper campaign was launched when junkies in Britain rose from 15 to 60. This resulted in the methadone solution and thousands of junkies. Well done the press, idiots to a person.
The government which is supposed to understand how markets work is unable to see that free heroin kills the heroin business stone dead. Shall I rob house and buy cut heroin or get decent stuff free? the junkie asks. Obviously he will continue to rob and buy crap junk.
The heroin trade is the only successful form of pyramid selling. You fix up heroin, become addicted, to get your own supply you buy more than you need, cut it, sell it to your friends, in a short while your customers keep coming back. They then buy junk from you cut it. The chain ends when either there are no more potential customers or the junk is so heavily cut that it can't be further divided. This kind of marketing sells itself.
The government could kill the market stone dead and vastly reduce the rate of take up, but it prefers locking junkies up in prison for thieving and then getting sued for making the poor dears miserable.
The usual argument, which is the same one used when we only had 60 junkies, is that they will sell there free heroin on!. Obviously not something that happens now!
If we gave the lying thieving junkies heroin for free the crime rate would drop, the prison population reduce, and the police could concentrate on cocaine.
Perhaps this is the problem, all those media people, chattering classes and the upper middle classes would not welcome this attention. Another reason is that its more an underclass and working class problem.
If I have to pay for my coke I don't see why some low life should get his junk for free. Quite so come to think of it. Now a little snort and the sun shines out of my media ass.