Swiss Approves Prescription Heroin But Not Marijuana!

Now, Swiss voters approve of prescription heroin ,but not marijuana. They make the argument that heroin addiction cannot be easily overcome & having a legal heroin program where addicts are given premeasured injections is necessary for their recovery. Marijuana is not a necessity for the user so I guess they felt it would just be supporting drug use. But, there are some very sick folks who use marijuana as an actual healing property. So, why not make provisions for those people,like we do in numerous states across America. It just seems illogical to me. Here's more from the Associated Press:

"The heroin program has helped eliminate scenes of large groups of drug users shooting up openly in parks that marred Swiss cities in the 1980s and 1990s, supporters say.

The United States and the U.N. narcotics board have criticized the program as potentially fueling drug abuse, but other governments have started or are considering their own programs modeled on the system.

The marijuana issue was based on a separate citizens' initiative to decriminalize the consumption of marijuana and growing the plant for personal use.

Jo Lang, a Green Party member of parliament from the central city of Zug, said he was disappointed in the failure of the marijuana measure because it means 600,000 people in Switzerland will be treated as criminals because they use cannabis.

"People have died from alcohol and heroin, but not from cannabis," Lang said.

The government, which opposes the marijuana proposal, said it feared that liberalizing marijuana could cause problems with neighboring countries.

"This could lead to a situation where you have some sort of cannabis tourism in Switzerland because something that is illegal in the EU would be legal in Switzerland," government spokesman Oswald Sigg told The Associated Press."(END OF EXCERPT) Go here for the whole article:http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jvPQobAzzd8b8rx5Ltg7TxMtz4bAD94PC0R80