HITLER COMMENTS DRAW RESPONSE

Editor:

Re: Hitler Was No Drug User

Robert Eichmuller is flatly wrong to deny Hitler's use of stimulant drugs.

From 1942 on, Adolf Hitler received daily injections of
methamphetamine from his personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell (as
recorded in Morell's diary).

Hitler's drug use has been documented many times and no serious
historian questions it.

However, drug use was not the cause of the deadly inhuman policies of
the Third Reich. Hitler's anti-Jewish and world conquest ideologies
were the product of diseased minds perverted by a lust for power.

Mr Eichmuller is also wrong to think that drug use is the cause of
"drug crime."

Consider this - no one was robbing, whoring and murdering over drugs
when addicts could buy all of the heroin, cocaine, morphine, opium
and anything else they wanted cheaply and legally at the corner pharmacy.

When drugs were legal, addicts held regular employment, raised decent
families and were indistinguishable from their teetotaling neighbors.

The term "drug crime" is an alibi to cover the utter failure of drug
prohibition.

Before we had drug laws, unintentional opiate overdose deaths were
extremely rare.

Most "drug deaths" before the Harrison Narcotic Act were suicides.
Accidental drug deaths were very unusual when addicts could buy cheap
pure pharmaceutical drugs, instead of the toxic mixtures prohibition
puts on the streets.

Nowadays, Drug Czar John Walters tells us there are more than 30,000
accidental "drug deaths" every year. Responsibility for these
needless deaths is on the heads of America's morally bankrupt drug warriors.

More proof that American style drug prohibition causes "drug deaths"
comes from the Swiss Heroin Maintenance Program where addicts are
supplied with cheap, pure heroin and cocaine.

Overdose deaths and injection transmitted diseases (HIV/AIDS, Hep C
etc) are now a rarity in Switzerland. The Swiss have not had a single
overdose death in the program.

Crime among Swiss addicts has dropped 97 per cent and the criminal
drug black market has vanished since the Swiss began providing
addicts with cheap legal drugs.

Swiss policy has resulted in an eighty-two percent decrease in heroin
addiction since 1990.

Using jail cells to treat addicts has not achieved similar success in
Keremeos or anywhere else in the past 92 years. Anyone who is truly
concerned about the victims of drugs, will work to end an immoral
drug crusade that murders more than 30,000 people every year and
spawns a multitude of criminal activity that never existed previously.

Redford Givens

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