Drugs - Gatwick

[natalie_1982]

This morning on GMTV I saw a brief story about a drugs find at Gatwick this morning, involving West Indians, Gambians and Sierra Leone-(ians?!), and cocaine and canabis. Anyone else see this story? I can't find the story anywhere!

[vehelpfulguy]

I have had trouble fidning it, but found a brief write up here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6522 351.stm

Maybe so many drugs are brought in by these people it stops being news any more !

[natalie_1982]

Thanks for the link - the presenter said it was the biggest find in one day or something like that, I thought it was going to be a big story but then it disappeared and it was annoying me all day I thought I'd made it up!

[sp1814]

Oh dear...that's Pete Doherty's weekend ruined then.

[Dolly1308]

What if anything will happen to these drug-carrying scum?
Slap on the wrist and some bleeding-heart leftie saying they didn't understand what they were doing .
Do what Singapore does whether you're Black or White -Death Penalty .

[natalie_1982]

Death penalty - for canabis???? That's right, and while we're at it we'll start branding people's forehead's and chopping theirs hands off.

[Dolly1308]

It wasn't just cannabis natalie-1982 therewas 18kg.of cocaine,street value about 1.i million pounds.
I suppose you think it was being brought in for the good of people's health,do you.
I have seen the results of cannabis smoking and I certainly wasn't under the impression it was doing any good for the people involved .
Have you thought about the damage drugs do to the community as a whole , families destroyed, kids abused,crime is rampant to pay for it and guns,knives etc are in daily crime use.
Oh no I'm sorry but if you can't get a high just from being alive and able to do more lawful activities and need drugs to bolster your esteeem then you're not worth much. Rant over .

[natalie_1982]

I don't disagree with you about drugs dolly, I live on an estate rife with heroin addicts and related crime including a massive gun and knife culture, it's something I experience day to day within my family and my next door neighbours as well as working with an agency trying to support before and enforce following offences.

I just don't think that death is a particularly appropriate penalty that's all. Rant over.

[Dolly1308]

How else are you going to stop them then?

[natalie_1982]

I think longer sentences and more care to be taken that drugs to not infiltrate the prison system would be a start.

If the death penalty worked surely so many people wouldn't stll be smuggling drugs through parts of Asia like you mentioned and risking the death penalty.

Nobody leaves school thinking "By the time I am 30 I would like to have track marks up my arms, weigh less than a child and have to wear nappies because of my heroin addiction". Unfortunately, without proper education and with easy access to cheap, hard drugs, it is a culture that will continue, and one that I don't think will stop by giving dealers the death penalty.

It is the addicts that want the drugs and if one person is killed for selling / smuggling them, the next person will come along and do it in their place, money will always be made n this trade until people don't want it anyway more.

Where do think giving smugglers the death penalty will get us? (aside from making relations with other countries even more frought than they already are)