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Saturday, August 27, 2005

Four arrested in $72m drug bust.

Four arrested in $72m drug bust. :

"The drug is a key ingredient in speed and police believe the seizure could have a potential street value of $72 million."

At least one of these a week is reported and I would say the police and associated organisations are becoming more confident and cannier in dealing with drugs and drug busts. There is huge money in it for the dealers and the top of the pyramid and there is massive heartache and misery for the bottom end and perhaps a few good times. No one begrudges someone a good time but we seem to have had a lot of death, destruction and desecration which has come with the four letter D word, so it's in our interests to keep finding the hauls. The other apporach is to take the money out of it. How, I don't know. We could always stop the venues that promote the stuff from having it. Would raves really change if people could balloon their heads? If they could keep it to themselves and not affect the rest of us maybe we'd ignore it, but the trouble with drugs is the hospital staff and doctures have to try and keep the peopel alive when they are so young and parents have to worry about their kids and then they drive, or become involved in such anti social behaviour. This precludes saying, well, if they are silly enough to take the stuff, let them. So this persistence by the police is having an effect, you can feel it. There's some panic out there in the community, but on the whole we have started to restore the balance. Peole always seem to need to have something to alter their brains. Maybe we need something which less lethal, not illegal and less of a income generator.

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