France to start SUPERVISED illegal drug use program.

[powderman]

France to launch program that allows supervised illegal drug use  Published October 23, 2012
FoxNews.com    France is reportedly planning to test launch a series of "shooting galleries," where drug users can inject illegal drugs while under medical supervision.
"I hope that these experiments will be announced before the end of the year," health minister Marisol Touraine told a news station, according to AFP.
 
Not everyone is on board with the idea, as France's former education minister Luc Chatel reportedly called the program "irresponsible."
"This would be sending the wrong signal to our country’s young people," Chatel told Canal Plus television.
 
"I find it very worrying this is coming from the health minister, who is there to protect the French and young people," he said.
The practice is not entirely new to Europe, as similar programs are already in place in Britain and Germany, AFP reports.
France plans to launch the program by the end of the year.
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[magooch]

And soon, the progressives will make it mandatory.

[Conan The Librarian]

This reminds me of the old methadone clinics that were common in the 60s and 70s. I could always tell I was near one because of all the strung-out zombie looking guys that were sort-of walking/levitating in the area.
 
Today in Minneapolis there is a kind of welfare that basically allows heavy duty alcoholics to drink themselves to death in a special government managed flop house.
http://www.twincities.com/ci_16774107?nclick_check=1
 
Here's info on the british injection houses.
http://www.bmj.com/content/328/7431/100
 
So maybe France is a little behind the times on this one.

[BUGEYE]

some complain about the cost of the war on drugs.   we could use the money from that war to just hand out free drugs for all.

why do some people want us to be like europe?

If you want to turn us into a european style cess-pool,  you are liberal or libertarian.

[briarpatch]

I dont know what the answer is but this aint it. Not with the government involved anyway.

[powderman]

I see no reason to supervise illegal crack, cocain, or meth druggies, let em take their chances. POWDERMAN.

[magooch]

Why not just flood the market with deadly drugs and let the users end it quick.  Problem solved.