Sydney centre now a seedy haven for thugs, junkies and drunks

[dechucka]

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She said she had called the police more than 50 times in the five
weeks since opening the shop, and that she had been forced to
barricade herself and customers inside on several occasions when
violence broke out in the mall.

# Nothing will be done until a politicians' family gets harmed. Until
then words will do.

It has, remember Bob Hawke's daughter. Nothing will happen because
nothing can stop the scourge of drugs while there is a profit in them

Given that well over 90% of the population won't be interested in those
drugs, it's not that much of a scourge. Not counting your usual booze and
ciggies, of course.

I was talking all drugs but illegal drugs affect all of society, whether it
is the cost of law enforcement, drug turf wars or the crime from addicts

[dechucka]

Post by dechucka

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She said she had called the police more than 50 times in the five
weeks since opening the shop, and that she had been forced to
barricade herself and customers inside on several occasions when
violence broke out in the mall.

# Nothing will be done until a politicians' family gets harmed.
Until then words will do.

It has, remember Bob Hawke's daughter. Nothing will happen because
nothing can stop the scourge of drugs while there is a profit in them

Given that well over 90% of the population won't be interested in
those drugs, it's not that much of a scourge. Not counting your
usual booze and ciggies, of course.

I was talking all drugs

That's wasn't your claim.

I think the scourge of drugs in cludes all drug including misuse of
prescription drugs and legal drugs

Post by dechucka
but illegal drugs affect all of society,
whether it is the cost of law enforcement, drug turf wars or the
crime from addicts

If those drugs were not illegal, none of those problems would arise. They
occur only because there is a knee-jerk reaction from puritans in the US
to ban anything that people like doing eg prohibition. A total public
policy disaster, from which the US has not recovered. Banning drugs has
the same effects.

agree