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Prompted by the recent murder of a NYC plainclothes officer during a drug bust, the NYT has an informative take-out on undercover work, which points out that about twice a month a NYC undercover officer is shot during a buy, and five or six times a month, one is forced at gunpoint by dealers to use coke or heroin.
Domestic drug use is severely punished, but heroin production for export is permitted.
A study of heroin overdoses in Washington, D.C., the findings of which were published by the Journal of Forensic Sciences (1989), found no relationship between heroin purity and death-by-overdose or nonfatal overdose.
But that, I think, is a very bad analogy, because heroin addicts tend to be people who believed at the outset that they could escape addiction.
It requires that all nonviolent drug offenders be paroled (an estimated 1,000 persons are eligible to go free within the next 90 days); that the money saved in jail-related costs go toward funding of a new parents' commission on drug education; that all violent drug offenders do 100 percent of their sentence; and, almost as an afterthought, allows doctors to prescribe marijuana, heroin, or LSD.