Yes, seriously. Apparently the response to a dangerous addiction is keeping the addiction going on the taxpayer’s dime. Oh, but marijuana is still illegal. Make sense of that if you can.

Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved Sunday a move to make permanent the country’s pioneering program to give addicts government-authorized heroin.  At the same time, voters rejected a proposal to decriminalize marijuana.

Sixty-eight percent of the 2,264,968 voters casting ballots approved making the heroin program permanent. It has been credited with reducing crime and improving the health and daily lives of addicts since it began in 1994.

Some 63.2 percent of voters voted against the marijuana initiative.

Via Outside the Beltway.