Radio France Internationale paid warm tribute to the man who founded the Marmothan clinic in Paris, believed in "listening" to drug users instead of punishing them, advocated the open sale of syringes in the 1980's (ostensibly to prevent the spread of AIDS) and liked to quote Foucault in his articles. The site admits that in the early days Olievenstein's ideas incurred "l'hostilité de la majeure partie de la communauté scientifique", but rejoices that "[a]ujourd'hui, sa pensée libérale imprègne encore la manière de prendre en charge les toxicomanes."
If what you've just read makes you feel sick, Peter Hitchens' recent thoughts on drugs will remind you that there are still some sane people out there.
The Christian Solidarity Party, incidentally, has a zero-tolerance policy on drugs. This is stated in the manifesto of 1997. We believe that crime is crime and should be punished. Constantly treating wrongdoers as victims - whether we're talking about disruptive boys in primary school or violent killers - is morally irresponsible and leads to a culture where criminals think they can act with impunity, and the rest of society is powerless to do or say anything against it.
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About drug-users... they are victims of their own behaviour. Everyone should think that whatever the drugs they use (cocaine, marijuana, food, drink, tobaco, chocolate) they become addicted to it.
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