In article , tvaerskaegg@aol.com
(Svenne) wrote:

> *From:* Svenne 
> *Date:* Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:10:19 GMT
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:43 +0100 (BST), Claude@aol.com (Claude) 
> wrote:
> 
> >In article , 
> drjohn@NOSPAM.hotpotmail.com (Dr
> >John Watson) wrote:
> >
> >> He said there was a human right to use drugs, so long as it did 
> not
> >> negatively impact on the rights of others.
> 
> 
> >It does, it impacts on friends, family, employers and society.
> >
> >Harm from drugs legal or illegal, is not just to the user. Therein 
> lies the failure
> >of the so called harm reduction through legalisation argument. 
> 
> Since just about nothing is risk free, the best that can be done is
> minimising risk.
> 
> This is the strength of the legalisation argument. Proper regulation
> within a legal context 
That is the position with heroin in the UK.


causes far less harm to the friends, family 
> and
> employers of drug users as well as to society as a whole than does
> prohibition.
> 
> Svenne
>