From: Adam 

John Beamish wrote:
> 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.
>

Why is that surprising? People who drink alcohol make positive
contributions. The City of London used to be fueled by speed & coke
& huge areas of the world exist in a haze of cannabis.

Adam


> 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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