President of the Philippines threatens to leave UN

[Pat Mustard]

It is a problem. The solution is legalize, tax, and regulate. And treat addiction as a medical problem, and not something to kill someone over.

Yes, let's legalise heroin.

That's a fantastic idea.

The legalise, regulate and standardise route has worked for every legal addictive substance. The UK used have a ban on gin in the 1700's leading to stuff like this, until with the Gin Act of 1751 which legalised the import and standardised native production of the drink, which curbed the excesses that were seen previously to a large extent.

Of course if making an addictive substance illegal was worthwhile, then prohibition would still be in place in the US and probably would have spread worldwide (and remember the social and health costs associated with alcohol in the UK are both greater than all illegal drugs combined, a fact for which David Nutt was sacked by Call me Dave's government when he publicised it).