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Originally Posted by Graham
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They came up with a fantastic idea which on paper looked good, but neglected to take into account what people are like when they've just injected heroine into their viens.
I don't think it was Amsterdam, but one of the other dams, they declared a park a drug decriminalised zone, giving out free needles, and supplying biohazard waste buckets for used ones, and giving advice on how to get off the stuff if people wanted to.
The idea was, drug users could go to the park, get safe needles, and be good citizens and put the used needles in the buckets, and generally just lie about chilling.
If memory serves, and this was several years ago, they were going to try it for 3 months and if successful roll it out across the country.
What happened?
Well your average heroine user doesn't give a flying watsit as to what happens to the needle once they're high.
So the park was flooded with used needles.
This was a park that kids would play in during the day.
The area became a magnet for drug users, and it all got out of control.
People still took overdoses, so they had bodies to clear up along with the drug waste.
On a different note, how do you test someone at the side of the road if you suspect they've been driving while under the influence of drugs?
If you get pulled over for wandering all over the road (dodging the manhole covers going up the A3 through cosham), and the PC suspects you have been drinking, he can just breathalise you, see that your story about the manhole covers is correct, and see that you haven't been drinking alcohol and send you on your way.
But lets say someone gets pulled over for wandering all over the road. There's no manhole covers, but the diver has been smoking canabis.
He's breathalised, it shows clear, and maybe he's able to convince the PC he's ok, so drives off as a danger.
The PC could take the driver down to the police station for a blood test, but lets say the driver hasn't been smoking pot, how would the driver feel about having his time wasted like that?
You have the current problem of people drinking just below the limit, then smoking pot to feel more drunk. The police have no way of checking if that person is too intoxicated to drive, as the breathaliser will say they are ok.