Are Safe Injecting Rooms for Addicts a Good Idea?

Question by thom t: Are safe injecting rooms for addicts a good idea?
Aren’t they just encouraging the crimes addicts commit to pay for their drugs? Wouldn’t it be better for the government to provide drugs for registered addicts so at least they don’t have to rob honest citizens?
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Answer by Elephant’s Child
This & many other problems can be solved very simply by making taking drugs legal.

The one thing that the USA has done for the benefit of the rest of the world is prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt that prohibition does not work.
Not only does it not make the situation better, it actually makes it worse.
Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in America, during Prohibition.
That is not a coincidence.

Answer by moose
I think if someone is caught with any amount of an illegal drug they get arrested and punished. If they discouraged people to use drugs the demand would stop. Why do they let the users off and. Then encourage them to keep using by supplying. Needles etc and a place to use it and all the time my diabetic wife has to pay for her LEGAL medication while she didn’t choose to be diabetic.

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