LENIENCY AND DRUGS DON'T MIX

I support the call for zero tolerance concerned the drug problem.

The argument that giving addicts free needles, injecting rooms etc.
will at least keep them alive until the day they decide to give up is
misplaced compassion. In my job as a nurse I have never met a drug
addict who has not in some measure a high-maintenance, whingeing,
pathetic, miserable human specimen, all positive characteristics lost
and destroyed by drugs. These people need laws that will force their
rehabilitation, because they simply do not have the ability to be
responsible for it themselves.

The small number who make the herculean effort to get off drugs deserve
praise for their courage and fortitude, but their numbers are too small
to justify the present lenient approach.

Linda Lonsdale,
Mt Victora