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Drugs can hit unexpectedly.
Like Marek, I have never consumed drugs, be it grass or cocaine. But what a surprise when parents and grandparents find out that their lovely child has become addicted!
It can happen, it does happen.
As posted above, the financial strain on the NHS, rehabilitation and Police to cope with the effects of drugs - we were talking here of the very hard stuff, namely cocaine, to which we can equate heroin, is enormous.
The amount of money spent on consuming drugs, a part of which leaves the economy and goes abroad to drug-farmers and cartel runners, must be huge.
Are these arguments not enough to realise that drugs drain our society both of human resources and financial resources?
To legalise drugs would be sheer insane self-destruction, but sure, if you want a generation of zombified people to become the new working-generation, the people who are supposed to work in factories, on farms, in offices, in hospitals, then why not legalise drugs and introduce them to schools too?
I haven't even mentioned what effect drugs can have on driving, on work-related accidents, on wrong decisions, on family-destruction when addiction is around.
And anyway, to leagalise drugs such as weed and ecstasy would encourage people, once addicted, to move on to harder stuff, so the illegal market of cocaine and heroin would flourish all the more. It would be one step of addiction leading to the next step.
According to 2005 UN report, the illegal drug trade is estimated at about 1% of total global commerce, meaning that illegal drugs reap a yearly income of over $320 billion.
A fine way to drain economic resources world-wide and convey such sums of money to evil criminals, who may-be invest it in other sectors of economy and weald incredible financial power!
So lets forget the bit about legalising drugs and centre on how not to allow young people to become addicted in the first place, and get back to the roiginal proposal of proper border controls.
Dover is Britain's first Port, hence my assertion that Dover should stand up and ask the Government to take urgent attention!
No, I won't do a single-handed job! There are enough people in positions of authority who can decide to take up the cause.
