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Let's buy up all the heroin, says MP
Selous says direct action in Afghanistan would help ease UK problems
The UK government should buy up the heroin crop in Afghanistan and use it around the world for pain relief, according to South West Beds MP Andrew Selous.
Speaking in the House of Commons he said to fellow MPs: "Why, given that heroin can have legitimate medical uses, cannot we buy up the Afghan heroin crop and use it around the world for pain relief? That would stop it flooding into this country illegally. We need much serious thought on that issue."
He said that the recent events in Ipswich - where five prostitutes were murdered - highlighted the problem.
Mr Selous stated: "I read the biographies of the women who were so brutally and horrifically murdered and I cannot have been the only one to be struck by the fact that they were all heroin addicts. It is a problem that affects all our constituencies - there will not be a single Member of Parliament who does not have a heroin problem in their constituency.
"Given that we know that 90 per cent of the heroin on UK streets comes from Afghanistan and that we have a major military presence there, it is extraordinary that we cannot do more to stop the poppy crop ending up here."
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