@Smackchimp 546877 wrote:
Would it be feasible to prescribe crack to users? How would users behave if they were given as much crack as they wanted for free? They would certainly commit less crime
That bit is true, but only because they would be most likely to binge, fatally OD or to end up getting prang and killing each other and dead people can no longer commit crime.
Other North European countries (NL especially but to a certain extent DK, DE and NO) seem to put up with a discreet culture of party drugs use to divert people from going onto long term cocaine and opiates use but even this is controversial and costs their local taxpayers a fair few Euros. It can be recovered to some extent by licensed night time events but that means people have to pay to get in, to get their drinks, to buy their tickets on public transport and to use their drugs in a way that does not annoy others.
Something rarely discussed or monitored in the debates about immigration (as folk only get para about poor people / those with different skin colour coming into the country) is the large amount of affluent middle class people from these other Northern European countries who migrate to the UK (and also the USA) and when asked why they very often say that “their own country is well run but taxes are too high, too many regulations are enforced against businesses and they are too soft on criminals and misbehaviour of young people”.
