Do you think in 50 years that...

1. Drugs legislation will be overhauled? (as in partial/mass legalisation)

2. The fossil fuel crisis will be solved?

3. The way Israel is treated in the international, non-arab, community will be changed?

4. America will still be the world's leading superpower?

Just want to make a comment on 1.

Heroin was first produced commercially in Germany a century ago as a substitute for morphine in pain relief and also used to help chronic alcoholics and insomniacs. It is highly addictive and while the drug itself does not cause inevitable mental or physical deterioration, the user is subject to host of associated problems. In the early 1970s we followed the US and introduced the failed methods of prohibition, treating a medical and sociological problem as a legal one. We were misled into believing that heroin addiction is curable and within the control of a user who sincerely wants to change. We should revisit our traditional system of heroin maintenance since the psychological and physiological imperatives of addiction rule out the idea of a 'drug free' world.