Why heroin should be legalized

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• Martha Sweezy graduated from the Smith College School for Social Work in August, 1990. This article is a condensation of one chapter in her Masters Thesis, which is entitled, “Why Heroin Should Be Legalized: Treatment and Foreign Policy.”
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