Pushing drugs

Dear Sir

On Thursday, June 30, you reported on a Palmerston mother’s brush with the law, “Mum of two fined $500 for cannabis”.

The woman’s defence lawyer, Ian Read, told the court “she has not been going out peddling and pushing it and there is no suggestion of selling to kids”.

I was hoping that Ian may be able to tell me where I can find these drug dealers who are peddling and pushing their wares in the NT. Maybe the lawyers at Legal Aid are onto something my friends and I are not.

From my experience, I can assure you that the market for illicit drugs is extremely healthy.

No peddling or pushing is required, and there is no need to sell drugs to the “kids”.

The only people peddling or pushing drugs onto our “kids” are the pharmaceutical giants, and of course, the tobacco and alcohol giants.

Yours truly,

Gary Meyerhoff
Rapid Creek

Note: I emailed this letter to the editor of the NT News on July 02, 2005.