More effort needs to be made by law enforcement to get drug dealers off the street
By Lethbridge Herald on July 14, 2023.
Editor:
The same old song and dance. That’s all I hear or see on the issue of addicts or drug users who are dying. I am sorry this happens.
The problem can be solved. Instead of all of us concentrating on saving the poor old drug user from overdosing, we as a society should concentrate 100 per cent on stopping the flow of drugs from getting to the users in the first place.
Law inforcement, government and everyday people have to step up in a big way to go after the pushers who are selling all these drugs. These drugs continue to keep coming to our country, our province, our cities and people.
Law enforcement needs to step it up a big notch to end the sale of these illegal drugs. It is not magic that make these deals take place. Pushers and criminal organizations who benefit from the drug sales must be stoppped from selling any drugs to anyone using them.
This may seem to be an impossible task. I say no, it is not impossible. We have to have a wholehearted concentrated effort to do it.
If we persevere we can do it. We are spending too much time and resources worrying about drug users from dying. Paramedics, police and emergency personnel should stop doing so much to just temporarily save a life.
A majority of law enforcement time should be used to catch, stop and eliminate the pushers from selling these drugs.
Police say they are trying to stop the flow of illicit drugs. There are many sources – let’s stop the sources once and for all. When we stop giving or letting these drugs being sold, we should be able to stop a lot of people from dying. If we can catch and imprison more dealers, we will make a huge dent in the drug use problem.
We need to make harsher penalties for selling illegal drugs in Canada. We could and maybe should bring back capital punishment to remedy the situation. The present laws may have to be changed. They must be changed. Let’s change them. Contact your local MLA to get the change put into law.
Radical punishment like the death sentence for pushers should not be ruled out. If we do not stop the sale of illegal drugs, we will never solve the problem of people using drugs and dying on the streets.
Our once nice garden (city, province and country) used to be better and was weed free. Our local garden (city) has become infested with the worst weeds imaginable – dealers and the criminal element. We have to clean up our garden from the deadly weed infestation and get that garden looking good again.
People being productive again, helping our country prosper. Do drug dealers and criminals pay taxes on their illegal activities? No, they don’t.
Let’s put a better effort into stopping the sale of illegal drugs once and for all.
If you have a better idea about the drug problem, let’s hear about it.
Rob Stanko
Lethbridge.
18-17
I believe this was the approach to solving the issue with the Mafia, go after the head of the snake…..snake just grows a new head…..
A textbook example of comments that are vile, inane and banal. Further, there is a stunning lack of historical context — witness the abject failure of the “War on Drugs” in the US introduced by Nixon and resurrected by Reagan.
We’ve already solved this problem – how many moonshiners do you know?