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Drugs are a major cause behind unemployment, poverty, homelessness and crime so how do we stop them?
Step 1: Sack all the wasteful committees, consultants and advisers who run local government.
Step 2: Use the money to hire some large excisemen with big sticks to beat all the drug barons around the more sensitive body parts.
The drug problem won't be solved by social workers and therapists. We need to stop the supply of drugs at the source, so they don't reach the streets. If people can't get drugs, they won't be tempted into using them.
Step 1: Sack all the wasteful committees, consultants and advisers who run local government.
Step 2: Use the money to hire some large excisemen with big sticks to beat all the drug barons around the more sensitive body parts.
The drug problem won't be solved by social workers and therapists. We need to stop the supply of drugs at the source, so they don't reach the streets. If people can't get drugs, they won't be tempted into using them.
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You've got a point; no one can be tempted if there's no source of temptation, but missed reality; wherever there's a profit to be made, someone's gonna risk it.
Look at America's war on drugs, it still hasn't eradicated drug problems within the US. Besides, I don't think all illegal drugs should remain illegal, which would solve two problems at the same time.
Realistically, I do think we need to beef up the C&E. Give them more patrol boats and have a more visible presence in the major ports.
(Edited to correct spelling)
[ 13-12-2001: Message edited by: Captain Slog ]
not the other way round then ?
p.s don't get heroin confused with drugs as a whole.
If drugs like cannabis and ecstasy were decriminalised than much of the organised crime element that comes with illegal drugs would dissappear.
Most crimes that are comminted by drugs users are addicts attempting to raise enough cash to continue using the drug. Coke and Heroin habits can be very expensive.
Slog the idea of stopping the source of drugs is good in theory but will never work. There's a market for these drugs and money to be made and you have to realise that theres a fair number of people who would hate to see the drugs run out.
Never! <IMG alt="image" SRC="biggrin.gif" border="0">
I was gonna put that as *my* signature.... the last bit anyway. From Well-Wicked, I believe....
Heh, well you didn't <IMG alt="image" SRC="tongue.gif" border="0"> so there...
I got it from www.wellcoolstuff.com. Have a look at some of the shit they sell.
Think about it, many employers (particularly the armed forces) won't take anyone who uses drugs (being stoned doesn't help productivity) thus many drug users are unemployable.
Drugs can also cause homelessness because people can be chucked out of their home if their relatives find out they are using drugs. (It happens more than you might think)