THIS IS YOUR GOV'T ON DRUGS

If the idea of your hard-earned tax money being used to buy heroin for
junkies sits sour in your belly, you're not alone.

It's incomprehensible that medical practitioners and politicians are even
considering the idea, in a country where not even terminal cancer victims
can legally use marijuana, a much softer drug, to quell their suffering.

You don't give booze to an alcoholic, or cigarettes to a nicotine addict,
to help them kick their vices.

And you don't give a gambling addict a handful of cash and send him to the
races, if you want to help him.

Why, then, give heroin to heroin addicts, to help them kick their habit?

It defies common sense.

Providing heroin to junkies, in the hope that they'll stop breaking into
houses and mugging people to get money to feed their vice is heinously
cynical in that it writes off the addict as a redeemable, potentially
productive member of society.

Legalizing heroin, to this end, would also send a confusing message to
potential junkies that society has legitimized its use.

This in itself is immoral, considering the horrific harm heroin already
wreaks on society.

There are other considerations too.

If heroin were legalized, why not cocaine, an equally destructive drug?

Where and when will society say enough is enough?

Legalizing and prescribing heroin, even with the best of intentions, is a
Pandora's box that shouldn't be opened.

Checked-by: Mike Gogulski