Your well researched and absolutely correct on all fronts Anthonyve, thank you for clearing that up for us.

cheers T2

Obviously you guys have no moral compass, social responsibility or real care for our vunerable youth.

You approve of the use and sale of illegal drugs to yet to be addicted youth. Young people will experiment with the socially taboo things. Removing it as a criminal offence to supply does give a message of unnaceptability by society. That you give a message using and supplying illegal drugs is acceptable for society is not in the social good. I will never hold up the white flag of surrender to socially destructive substances. My message will always be it is a criminal offence to supply destructive poisons to our youth. Those that do are criminals, even as those that give alcohol to those under age.

joseph..
ignoring the other resoning
no one is saying give kids booze or drugs[thats insane]

what we are saying
is what good is making them criminal

drugs= docter/medicine
problems with drugs..is a medical problem
why criminalse kids for expermentation..when they need docters watching..not cops

cops catch a kid with booze;..they poor it out[cal the parents]
with drugs your liocked up..walked though the justice system
fined.jailed...threatend..lied to..and got a criminal record for life

yeah
jesus would be pleased
in qld alone the drug law raised 65 million[in 1999] alone
criminalising 35,o75 kids just for qld..just for drugs..just so lawyers get thousands geting the kid to plead guilty

20 out of 21
plead guilty..to posswesion..of a plant
demed a drug by taxonnomic lies..jesus would be impressed

im not

Voterland like Anthony I have left the thread.
Yet still it talks to us.
See it now has many heads, we are able to see why the debate can not go on.
We feed the victims those who are blind to the worst impacts,of both the drugs and their words.
Claims have been made,of nursing the victims,by posters who used words that saw us flee the thread.
I have to say the very thought no one is injured or that grog is worse, is a self comforting terminological inexactitude.
I once nursed in my arms a child who as a youth, full of Heroin threw himself under a train.
Helped cut down a victim who hung himself.
Yet here, in the defense of ones own habits, in denial of so much pain, we find debate imposable.
A walk in any city's inner areas, looking at the victims will not let me forget them, see you in another thread, until it too is invaded by self interest and a special blindness.

belly..i have a father commited suicide by drinking
and have a cousin..who drowning in his own vomit at his 21st

okm you got a pair too
but lets think of what problems drive people to do these things
how does police making you a criminal fix that

drugs are a symptom of a bigger problem
you dont make problems go away..by adding more
its like a told..a previous poster..is this law helping..or making things worse

and as your own story reveals
its not working..criminalisation only fills private prisons

[i hate booze..so i dont drink
you hate drug's..so you dont shoot em up ya arm]
your drinking with the drunken copper...after he locks me up

by what right does govt declare war on its own kids
its not a war on drugs..only some drugs..most are available in your local

[80%..of police werk..is booze related
according to a copper only a few days ago]

police have a high drop out rate
once they notice their drunken mates..are 2 faced..

Belly,
Were either if the persons you mentioned sentenced to prision? It could appears these persons had deeper personal issues not addressed that could have caused the overdose or suicide.

"I once nursed in my arms a child who as a youth, full of Heroin threw himself under a train. Helped cut down a victim who hung himself".

I manned weekend night shift on "Crisis Line" for four years in 1980's and young people rang up whose friend had overdosed or drunk and threatened suicide it had nothing to do with being criminalised. Because I was on the phone the only step was to phone an ambulance or the police