Why shouldn't Australia have a zero tolerance approach to illicit drugs? It has to start somewhere. I do believe that most drug users have problems that they feel are insurmountable and that drugs are their only way of coping with them. Mental Health is a poorly funded area in most communities, indeed most of Australia lacks funding in this area. If the cronic drug problem in this country is to be dealt with, we need to start with the mental health of the nation and at the same time really crack down on those who continue to bring drugs into this country or continue to cook them on our own soil. The Justice system needs a major overhaul and a dose of reality.It needs to come down more heavily on the drug suppliers and sellers in this country than it does on murderers. Drugs and the people who sell them are no better than a mass murderer, causing caos in all areas of society, and the destruction of our youth. It only takes one injection or one pill to kill. Some of these people are selling hundreds a day. That is hundreds of potential deaths. One could very well say that they are attempting murder. We also need to educate not only the new generation of youngsters, but their parents. Most parents in the 40+ age group do not understand what they are up against with the drugs available on the streets now. We all read about it and see it on the TV, but unless you have a reason to deal with it personally most people never really know any more than that, they don't know what to look for until it is too late. Cheers Denigal

People who use illicit drugs have been under seige from the cartel of corporate media, redneck punters, major parties and the US [through its dominated INCB]. Europe is showing a new way forward, with using diamorphine as pharmacotherapy in some countries, providing public drug consumption/injection rooms and taking a long, hard look at the whole rubbish of prohibition and whether its evidence-based or simply morally loaded rubbish pandering to proddy christians who fancy reviving the old temperance movements of decades ago. I'm sick of it. We deserve a lot better. Just leave us alone and get on with your lives. And if you want to do anything for us, increase treatment for those who want it, introduce IV pharmacotherapies including diacetylmorphine HCl and stop hassling the little people on the ground, some of whom become streetwalkers in order to pay the ludicrous prices of opiate/opioid substances. Why should some little minion on the ground like me cop a criminal record simply to pander to the US-dominated International Narcotics Control Board [INCB]. Did you know that the US blackmails Asian countries years ago to put up harsh penalties and then get more foreign aid?

Ah, what the corporate media cartel keep from us.