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GENEVA — The world’s most comprehensive legalized-heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana.
The heroin program, started in 1994, has helped eliminate scenes of large groups of drug users shooting up openly in parks and is credited with reducing crime.
Sixty-eight percent of the 2.26 million Swiss voters casting ballots approved making the heroin program permanent.
By contrast, around 63.2 percent of voters voted against a citizens initiative to decriminalize the consumption of marijuana and growing the plant for personal use.
