President Clinton recently voiced strong opposition to a proposal to distribute free needles to heroin users to fight the spread of AIDS, claiming that such a plan would only encourage drug use. What do you think?
“I’ve never really considered becoming a heroin addict, but if the needles are free, why not?”
Joan Toth • Speech Pathologist
“As a dry cleaner, I say what we need to do is provide heroin users with one-hour needle martinizing.”
Dry Cleaner • Craig Orr
“If we give out free needles to heroin addicts, how can we be sure diabetics won’t take them and use them for their own purposes?”
Joseph Funderburke • Lawyer
“The statistics show that heroin users who share needles have a very strong chance of getting really fucking high.”
Ken Schwab • Systems Analyst
“As long as you aren’t shooting up with homos, there shouldn’t be any danger of catching the gay AIDS.”
Elaine Steffens • Advertising Executive
“Giving needles to heroin addicts? What’s next–calls anywhere in the continental U.S. at just 10 cents a minute?”
Lucas Kingery • Biologist
