Motorhead's Lemmy called for heroin to be legalised when he addressed the Welsh National Assembly on Thursday. As reported on Thursday, Lemmy was invited to address the Assembly by Tory member William Graham, prior to a Motorhead gig in Cardiff on Thursday night.
The rocker, real name Ian Kilmister, thinks heroin should be available on prescription, thereby negating the need for a dealer, and therefore minimising a great many of the social problems caused by the drug. He told the assembly: "It not only destroys a person's life, first it turns them into a thief and a liar. Heroin is the symptom, infection the almost incurable disease. It's on the streets of your constituencies and it's not going to get better if you keep on treating it the way you have. I hate the idea but I believe the only way to treat heroin is to legalise it."