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Bridgeburner
Not spiritual at all.
Registered: 09/16/06
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Drug Squad must concentrate on big boys
#8992714 - 09/27/08 08:20 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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THIS MUST be the most successful year ever in the police’s drive to combat drug trafficking. Unprecedented quantities of drugs have been seized and dozens of suspects are currently awaiting trial on a variety of drug-related charges. A week rarely goes by without a major drugs bust being made and the Drug Squad is earning a glowing reputation for it effectiveness. This had not always been the case. Until a few years ago, most drug-busts involved young users found in possession of a few grams of cannabis. The police would make a big song and dance about these arrests inviting questions about the effectiveness of their methods. The big traffickers were free to carry on their business while hapless cannabis smokers, often young tourists, were being used as proof that the Drug Squad was controlling the spread of drugs. It was not. Instead of turning their attention to heavy drugs and the traffickers the police were picking up pot-smokers. In the last couple of years, the police have clearly changed their strategy and priorities as the impressive results show. Perhaps the force has been helped by the retirement of corrupt and incompetent officers, the availability of better surveillance equipment, improved training and stronger leadership. The new strategy is most certainly working as the seizure of kilos of drugs shows. Arrests of youths with a few grams of cannabis are no longer publicised and, in many cases, offenders are released with just a warning, which is a sensible approach. No longer wasting police time on taking the kids to court and giving them criminal records, officers now concentrate on nailing the big boys. The sensible approach is also evident in the more honest way Drug Squad officers talk about drugs in public. While emphasising the zero-tolerance policy, officers no longer put all drugs in the same category, regarding their effects, as was the practice in past. Claims that cannabis killed caused laughter rather than turning youths off drugs. Now, the distinction between hard and soft drugs is being made, so when an officer tells a radio show that even the first dose of heroin could kill, youths are more likely to take him seriously. As part of this new approach, anti-drugs campaigns should focus on discouraging use of hard drugs – heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, LSD – which are much more dangerous than cannabis. Cannabis use is now so widespread among youths it is highly unlikely that it could be restricted by publicity campaigns. The authorities should concede defeat in the battle against cannabis use – they should still pursue the big traffickers, and concentrate on preventing users from going on to hard drugs. This must be the main objective of anti-drugs campaigns from now on. Just as a pragmatic policy on combating trafficking yielded astonishing results, so would a pragmatic anti-drugs, publicity campaign.
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golden1
Registered: 06/18/08
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Loc: north korea
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Re: Drug Squad must concentrate on big boys [Re: Bridgeburner]
#8992929 - 09/27/08 10:13 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have not heard of any drug shortage.. what did they accomplish again? just as it is impossible to stop terrorism, it is impossible to stop drug use. yet they keep trying
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Alan Rockefeller
Mycologist
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Re: Drug Squad must concentrate on big boys [Re: Bridgeburner]
#8993254 - 09/27/08 11:36 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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LSD – which are much more dangerous than cannabis.
LSD is more dangerous than cannabis?
hmm
Deaths from cannabis: 0 Deaths from LSD: 0
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Coaster
Baʿal
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Re: Drug Squad must concentrate on big boys [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#8993261 - 09/27/08 11:37 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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well i agree the potential for dangerous actions is higher on acid, they are talking about indirect danger of course you just have to know that
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Drug Squad must concentrate on big boys [Re: Coaster]
#8993307 - 09/27/08 11:45 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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There is also the danger that people who try LSD will stop spending so much time chasing money, negatively affecting the economy.
I would call that a good thing though.
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Ego Death
Justadropofwaterinanendlesssea
Registered: 04/27/03
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Loc: The War Machine
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Re: Drug Squad must concentrate on big boys [Re: Bridgeburner]
#8995015 - 09/27/08 06:05 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Drug squad should learn some basic business studies then they'd realize that due to supply and demand, based on their current methods their task is impossible.
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