Its not a case of buying them the heroin. Its a case of not paying the gangster for it. pay the people who grow the stuff, process it, sell it,a decent wage - like everything else.

i bet it would cost hardly anything if it were a product like any other. As it is, its costing us a fortune in trying to enforce unenforceable laws, street crime, prisons, supporting gangsters....and the illegal aspect makes it glamorous to the young and daft.

You couldn't do it in a laissez faire manner, the way Thatcher dismantled the welfare services and called it care in the community - but it could and should be done, because it would be morally the right thing to do.