Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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Roger - it's a question of supply and demand. Eliminate the demand and the suppliers will move on.
Drug users should simply give up drugs.
Never give up...
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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yes lesley
its the main dealers we need to catch
sadly its rare
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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Lesley,my condolences to the famley.
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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Keith- there would be no dealers if there were no users.
Never give up...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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dare i say that you are being a bit simplistic here richard?
in the case we have here terry had mental health problems and drugs were part of the answer here, not the first time i have come across this scenario.
not everyone can get through life without getting a kick, whether it be alcohol, tobacco binge eating etc.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Richard - I would word your post number 64 slightly different and say that if there no dealers, there'd be no users.
Dealers prey on non-users to start with, creating the need.
Small-time or big-time dealers need the harshest of punishments, no pussy-footing around. Death or life imprisonment - and I mean life imprisonment.
Roger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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It is a sad thing indeed, the death of this unfortunate man. Drug use may well have been a small part in the inevitability of his undignified end, but his journey through life must have been one of torment for him and all who loved him. May he rest in peace, and may those who aided him as best they could come to know that all efforts cannot bring about all ends and that 'trying' is just about all the reason behind life and living there is.
On the broader issue...
Wishing an ill away with talk of harsh punishment is exactly what lies behind drug taking and drug addiction. With this can be seen; Punishment, the Opiate of the Indignant. One wish that 'dungeons are too good for them', equates to the rush the heroin addict gets as they squeeze the plunger of the syringe, in both instances relief is welcome and short lived.
Similarly, the response to both incidents of wish-fulfilment should not be more of the same, and yet the default setting of the human condition appears to be to tread the Primrose path of separateness and blame. The addict drawn to the seclusion of the toilet cubicle, the indignant to public reaffirmation of worn-out prejudice.
Q-What will it take to bring the Punishment Pusher and the Drug Dependant into the same light?
[I take all the easy questions, and so am not immune to any of the above.]
A-The acceptance of blame should replace the apportioning of blame upon others. (We are all in this together, are we not?)
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Roger Walkden wrote:Richard - I would word your post number 64 slightly different and say that if there no dealers, there'd be no users.
Dealers prey on non-users to start with, creating the need.
Small-time or big-time dealers need the harshest of punishments, no pussy-footing around. Death or life imprisonment - and I mean life imprisonment.
Roger
The prisons are full now, at least those that survived the recent closures are, the USA who have huge police and prison resources cannot get a lid on the drug problem and I cannot see how we with a dwindling police force and prison closures can hope to either.
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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agree martin, the problem won't go away and with cuts to border agency/police and prisons the future means even more drugs will flood the country.