Heroin in the legal system

GENEVA (AP) - To give the Swiss voters with overpowering majority Sunday a move in the final one of the country pioneering programme, addicts by the state authorised heroin.

At the same time, the voters leant a proposal to the decriminalization of marihuana.

68 percent of the voters 2264968 castings voices make approved the heroin programme lasting. It was credited with the reduction of the criminal activity and improvement of the health and the everyday life of the dependent since his beginning in 1994.

Some 63.2 percent of the voters were right against the initiative of marihuana.

On another question, 52 percent of the voters approved an initiative to remove the limitation of pornographic criminal offences against children before the puberty.

Olivier Borer, 35, a musician from the northern city of Solothurn, said he welcomed the results partly because state action was necessary, around dependent on heroin help, but he said legalisation of marihuana was a bad idea.

"I think, it is very important to help these people, but to the relief of the use of drugs", did not say Borer. "You can see only in the Netherlands how it goes. The people go there of smoking."

The parliament approves of the heroin measure in a check of the anaesthetic law Switzerland in March, but the conservatives fenced the decision and forced itself to a national referendum under system of Switzerland of the direct democracy.

The heroin programme has served to remove scenes of big groups of drug consumers shoot openly in parks, affects Swiss towns in the 1980s and 1990s, supporters say.

The United States and the UN drugs board have criticised the programme as a potential refuelling of the drug abuse, but some other governments have begun or are modeled in consideration of her own programmes about the system.

The marihuana question was based on initiative of a separate citizen, with the consumption of marihuana entkriminalisieren and the arrangement grows for the personal use heroin in the legal system.

Jo Lang, to a Green member of the European Parliament from the central town train, said, he would be disappointed in the failure of the measure marihuana because it are granted to 600,000 people in Switzerland like criminals are treated because they consume cannabis.

"The people of alcohol and heroin have died, but not from cannabis", said Long.

The government, which the marihuana proposal from, according to the fear that a liberalisation of cannabis could lead problems with the neighbouring countries.

"This could lead to a situation where you have a sort of cannabis tourism in Switzerland because something which is unlawful in the EU would become in Switzerland legal", government spokesman Oswald Sigg The Associated Press said.

The heroin programme is offered in 23 centres in quite discreetly Switzerland which offer a row of support measures, just 1,300 addicts, not by other therapies been helped. Under careful supervision to use opiate detox kits, them squirt tins carefully measured to satisfy her cravings, but enough, around a big high one do not cause.

It is the aim, the addicts learn to function how one in the society, with consultation of psychiatrist and social worker.

Sabina Geissbühler-Strupler of the right Swiss People's Party who conducted the campaign against the heroin programme said, it would be disappointed by the vote.

"This is only a damage limitation is", she said. "Ninety percent of the dependent are not cured of the addiction."

Health insurance pays for the large part of the programme which costs 26 million Swiss francs (22 million dollars) per year. All inhabitants in Switzerland are obliged, a health insurance have, with the government pays the premiums for those which cannot perform.

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