Monday, 1. December 2008
Topic: DRUGS - on December 1, 2008 at 11:19:15 AM CET
Swiss approve pioneering legal heroin program
A pioneering Swiss program to give addicts government-authorized heroin was overwhelmingly approved Sunday by voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana.
Sixty-eight percent of voters approved making the heroin program permanent. It has been credited with reducing crime and improving the health and daily lives of addicts since it began 14 years ago.
Only 36.8 percent of voters favored the marijuana intitiative.
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