There’s already evidence in the UK that a progressive approach works, but it has been forgotten about. Middlesbrough police trialled a scheme where they provided heroin users with their fix. All of a sudden, the users stopped committing offences to raise money for their habit, which in turn deprived dealers of a lucrative source of income.
It’s not been forgotten about it’s been buried. They were not happy when they were advise to reclassify marijuana as a class C. That’s where we got the famous line “the public are tired of experts” from.
There’s already evidence in the UK that a progressive approach works, but it has been forgotten about. Middlesbrough police trialled a scheme where they provided heroin users with their fix. All of a sudden, the users stopped committing offences to raise money for their habit, which in turn deprived dealers of a lucrative source of income.
It’s not been forgotten about it’s been buried. They were not happy when they were advise to reclassify marijuana as a class C. That’s where we got the famous line “the public are tired of experts” from.