• ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Wasn’t it Switzerland that legalized heroin and offered medical-grade heroin to junkies in proper clean environments and with medical personell standing by in case of an OD, and saw drug use plummet?

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      2 days ago

      As in many countries I believe the use is legal, but not distribution. The ones seeking for the government drug got it somewhere else in the first place

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        Switzerland has a program where they specifically give clean heroin to addicts. This is different from consumption spaces, where addicts can bring their own drugs, have access to clean use material like syringes and medical staff is present to help in an emergency. IIRC. Switzerland also spearheaded such consumption spaces.

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          2 days ago

          I know that, what I mean is. If the user got addicted they got by using illegal drugs not government’s. Because distribution is still illegal