Premier deserves a medal for war on drugs
GARY Meyerhoff (Letters, 29/7) has missed the entire point of the danger of drugs and shows evidence of an appalling memory, not unlike those who are severely affected by marijuana and other illicit drug use.
Bob Carr's record on protecting the community from the harm, the devastation, the damage and havoc, indeed the other adverse consequences of using illicit drugs is a mixed one. The NSW Government under his leadership is to be congratulated for its efforts to prevent the use of cannabis, and at times some successes against an insidious substance responsible for enormous devastation of young people's lives. The police force has had some success reducing supplies of illicit drugs, but also has at times turned its head in the other direction and failed the community by not properly enforcing the laws they have a duty to enforce and to protect the people accordingly.
There can never be any good excuse not to enforce such laws. It is however most unfortunate that the NSW Government, in Bob Carr's time, accepted poor advice to establish the illegal drug use room to incubate and prolong illicit drug use in Kings Cross rather than use those resources and resolve to help addicts get off drugs of addiction.
Lets hope the next Premier moves forward to helping addicts off drugs towards recovery rather than leaving them stuck on the end of a needle to be manipulated by drug dealers. Far better to help them with recovery and ongoing rehabilitation treatment.
Working together for prevention, treatment and elimination of drug abuse.
Michael D. Robinson
Executive Director,
Drug Free Australia Ltd
Newshawk: http://www.napnt.org
Pubdate: Mon, 01 August 2005
Source: Australian, The (Australia)
Copyright: 2005 The Australian
Email: letters@theaustralian.com.au
Website: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/35
Author: Michael D. Robinson
3 Comments:
Does Mr Robinson realise that there are many drug users that like and want to use illicit drugs. Not everyone that is in the drug scene is left hanging on the end of a needle manipulated by drug dealers. I also beleive if a drug user wants to become abstinant, there should be treatment programs available for those users in each state.
If it were really possible to eradicate illicit drugs, wouldn't that have been achieved decades ago? I doubt the drugs are going to go away any time soon. The laws only serve to make the problem worse, by putting the supply in the hands of criminals, many of whom are selfish, greedy, unscrupulous people. Illicit drugs would do less harm to the users and to the community if they were to be relegalised. That way the problems could be dealt with honestly and above board. Illicit drug use is really a personal issue. It shouldn't infringe on the rights of others. It's really a medical and social issue rather than a criminal one.
Barney Rubble
Greetings Scott Gary Fiona Stuart n Rob: keep up your good fight.
I have never smoked anything at all in my entire life, but I would like to try some cannabis to see if it numbs my chronic pain. Good Luck with your work.
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