"The truth about heroin is that it is a benign drug. It is addictive – and that is a very good reason not to use it – but the only significant screw-up it inflicts on the physical, mental and moral condition of its users is constipation...
The truth, which for decades has scarcely dared to speak its name, is that all of the illness, misery, death and crime associated with heroin are, in fact, the effect not of the drug itself but of the black market on which it is sold as a result of this war against drugs" - Nick Davies.
this article's been thrown around quite a bit in the defense for legalizing heroin. i wonder who in their right mind would think all problems associated with heroin-use will disappear if it's legalized. what dark clouds we live under that truth can be so far distorted..
