No matter how sympathetic you feel about the libertarian notion that we should all be free to choose our own recreational poisons, there is something obscene about druggies smoking ARVs for kicks.

No matter how sympathetic you feel about the libertarian notion that we should all be free to choose our own recreational poisons, there is something obscene about druggies smoking ARVs for kicks.

Graveyards are overflowing throughout Southern Africa because we can't give enough Aids victims lifesaving antiretroviral drugs.

Blame denialist politicians wallowing in ignorance, multinational drug companies defending obscene profits or whatever conspiracy theory strikes your fancy. But millions still die for want of ARVs.

So the health professionals nicking them at public hospitals to flog to junkies deserve to be consigned to the lowest reaches of hell.

We just hope our courts share that sentiment.