MORE DRUG DEATHS - Event Date: 13 Jan 2019

WHEN will our hopeless Governments do something worthwhile to reduce ILLEGAL DRUG use.
Another young one at a Music Festival died at Parramatta overnight.

I've stated many times,   ATTACK the users.
That was the approach years ago and it worked .      Many don't realise the problem has been with us since the year dot.
To the point where Heroine was banned world wide in 1954 and other drugs like the barbiturates since.

The drug experimenting starts in the school yards.   >SO, Delay the age for Drivers Licence application by 1/ 2/ 3/ years , for anyone in posession of, or using illegal drugs.

   GET OFFENDERS OFF THE ROADS & Repeat offenders off the Streets.
Re Open the vacant Institutions to house repeat offenders for lengthy periods as they used to do , under the Summary Offences and Inebriate act.

   Kids main goal in life is to get that drivers licence ASAP when they come of age ..        Delaying that alone, will halve drug use.

Driving Under the influence = Bang = minimum 2 years ban.
Alcohol included ,     Then watch the POSITIVE happen .

djebel wrote: You are a funny man.

   What do you see as funny Djebel.      We have a very serious problem , ripping our society apart and virtually nothing being done to stop it.
More every day being detected driving when stoned.
The authorities are now encouraging it by suggesting, testing illegal drugs for safety levels .     
Providing injecting rooms which force Police to ignore posession.

Damned good idea! No users = no suppliers 

How did they stamp out SP bookmakers ?

By introducing TABs into Pubs and clubs.

How did prohibition work out with alcohol?

djebel wrote: How did they stamp out SP bookmakers ? By introducing TABs into Pubs and clubs.

Few thought SP bookmakers could be put out of business.   In early days they weren't .    Tough penalties and heavy Policing dried it up eventually.

Australia is now one of the highest users of illegal drugs in the World.

It only gets worse from here .    Especially when you have Medical people providing users with pensions due to their drug addiction.

For the record = DRUG USERS are criminals.

They want to lock everybody up but they do not want to pay the taxes to do so.

Might need a wall.

maccamax wrote:    It is people like yourselves who are the problem . The same people who engineer the freedom for the killers of Jill Meagher , Dnaiel Morcombe , Anita Cobby and thousands of other victims.     Domestic Violence , Raping/Murder of random Women & very young children. DON"T LOCK THEM UP YOU SAY ...    You have blood on your hands and can't see it...How many are you prepared to house ?        Talk to the people on the front line and get some experienced opinion.        Police are arresting the same people they apprehended yesterday.      >Hospital Emergency & Para Medics need Security guards with them now, Some are injured or worse .     Unheard of years ago.

Just one more twist and you might convin...

Ah forget it.

Lock them up with career criminals, deny them support services, thus almost certainly ensuring they become habitual drug taking career criminals who spend even more time in prison at great cost to tax payers.

Tlazolteotl wrote: We should do whatever they do in the USA because they are world's best practice in absolutely everything and drugs are a perfect example.

Although even the Americans are not copying the Americans these days in some of the smarter states.

Afros wrote: This is an interesting read Going to the root of the problem and solving it is also a good solution? Find out what led people to use drugs and help them solve the problem, a lot of people turn to sunstances to escape the reality of where there life is at, be it feeling disconnected with society, losing a job, breakdown of a relationship or whatever other cause. Most people who have substance abuse problems (be it alcohol or drugs) have underlying issues that lead to them abusing said sunstance. It is absolutely stupid to suggest an alcoholic needs medical help but a drug abuser is a criminal, the problems are one and the same and should be approached as such.

Why do people take drugs? To open the doors of perception.

Bit like the reality show on the ABC about morbidly obese people. The real problem is not what their stuffing in their gobs every 5 minutes - its the underlying issues that's causing them to do that. The problem is these underlying issues seem to be a bit hard to diagnose - & even harder to fix if they ever are. Which brings you back to people continuing to shuv food down their throats - because hey - its the underlying issues causing it !

maccamax OP: "Delay the age for Drivers Licence application by 1/ 2/ 3/ years , for anyone in possession of or using illegal drugs.

   GET OFFENDERS OFF THE ROADS & Repeat offenders off the Streets.
Re Open the vacant Institutions to house repeat offenders for lengthy periods as they used to do , under the Summary Offences and Inebriate act.