Everybody knows, of course, why those women sell themselves out on the streets of Ipswich - because they are heroin addicts. As the front page of the Guardian put it yesterday: "Pock-marked and painfully thin, they all bore the obvious signs of heroin and crack addiction ... selling their bodies to feed their crippling habit."

All of that happens to be untrue. Neither of those drugs makes you pock-marked or thin, nor is a drug habit crippling. Nor does it require you to sell your body. All of those things become true only if addicts have the misfortune to live in a society which insists on prohibiting those drugs.

Go Nick

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude