Ice is a festering social disease which is not going to go away unless something very radical is done, at a political and law enforcement level, to deal with it from two very different angles.
As in treating it as both a public health issue that doesn't lay blame on or make addicts a criminal in the eyes of the law, but at the same time, giving the police all the extra resources needed to up the ante against ice in terms of prosecuting a lot more of the lowlifes who making and trading the drug.
Forget any notion of decriminalizing ice as some in the left wing media would have it.
Ice is increasingly cheap as well as nasty. How is decriminalizing a drug which is now more accessible to obtain than even cannabis going to lessen the amount of people who try it once and get addicted to it?
To decriminalize it would be sending a message to some very gullible and vulnerabl people who seek "a new high" that "a bit of ice won't hurt you". Seriously, it is a crazy idea.
As a former police officer, the new member for Lockyer Jim McDonald would know only too well that ice is very prevalent in the region.
I am sure he also knows that not nearly enough is being done to help and assist people through rehabilitation and counselling services to overcome their addiction to ice.
Such services are practically non-existent, or at best, adhoc and barely advertised.
Not to mention, he would have to be of the opinion that from a police perspective,there has to be a lot more police investigative resources channeled into fighting ice, even if that means the police, and not just in this region, have to channel a lot less resources
into targeting cannabis.
Cannabis doesn't kill people, ice can and does kill people. If it doesn't kill them it likely will destroy them.
This has to be the new narrative in the fight to eliminate ice from this region and everywhere else. I know Jim is listening- big question is, how many other politicians in Queensland are listening as well?
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