From: "John Beamish" 

There are an increasing number of "reduced harm" studies that
show not only the reductions in enforcement costs, decreased related
medical expenses and, surprisingly, small but positive economic
contributions by the drug users.

There was a somewhat-related piece (NYT?) about spending disproportionate
amounts on (for lack of a better phrase) commited and irredeemable
"skid row" types actually reduces costs overall.  Similar
reasons.

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:22:33 -0400, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>> Legalise & then tax.
>>
>> HM C&R would love to raise money rather than prevent commerce.
>
> And define quality, like alcohol "proof", via independent
testing.  Would
> stop a lot of inadvertent overdoses or people injecting rat poison that
> they
> thought was something else.
>
>

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