Pubdate: Mon, 28 Nov 2005
Source: Surrey Now (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005 Lower Mainland Publishing Group Inc., A Canwest Company
Contact:  http://www.thenownewspaper.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1462
Author: M. Martin
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05.n1801.a05.html

CRYSTAL METH A BIGGER PANDEMIC THAN CHICKEN FLU

The Editor,

During the past year, every newspaper has carried the grim warning of
a terrible global flu pandemic. According to some of the world's
health scientists, there is a possibility that the bird flu will jump
from the birds to humans. It is possible it has already happened. All
the chicken and geese they find with the flu, together with all other
birds on that farm, are eliminated.

All this concern is very official and heart-warming.

Meanwhile, here in the real world, there is a pandemic that most
government officials are officially ignoring. Crystal meth - the
newest and one of the least expensive drugs on the streets - is
killing our young people. This cheap drug is so addictive that most
people become addicted after the first time they use it. The user has
a life expectancy of about seven years. It is available everywhere.
All the schools have it. Most kids know where to get it.

Where are the official government warnings? Why are they all concerned
about something that "could" happen and not about something that "is"
happening? Not only that, when the police arrest people making or
selling crystal meth, they are processed through our lenient court
system and are back on the streets often within a few hours.

Why are the people who make this killer drug allowed to walk the
streets? Why are these people who are infecting our children not
treated like the killers they are?

Could it be that our politically-correct ideology is getting in the
way of our so-called court system? Could it be that all our appointed
judges are just plain too soft to address this?

Are dying chickens more important than dying children?

Whatever the reason is for this lack of action, we can be sure that
more people will become infected with the deadly crystal meth virus,
and more people will die.

M. Martin

Surrey
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