One Nation has been amazed by the reaction to the absurd proposal by the Watermelon Party to decriminalise dangerous drugs.

Under Labor in NSW they are effectively decriminalised already.

How many thousand people today were arrested and charged by the police in NSW for taking "ice", mariahauna, heroin or ecstacy?

Probably none.

In other words, if you want to inject, snort, swallow, suck or inhale illegal drugs, in NSW you will get away with it, even though by doing so you may end up dependent on social services, you may have neglected children starving in the next room, you may be about to get behind the wheel of a car or your activity will turn you one day into a schizophrenic.

Drug taking is not a victimless crime. The drug taker is the victim and society is also the victim.

But it gets worse.

Ring the police and say "I'm looking out my window now and a drug deal is going on right outside my house" and you'll be asked "Can you tell us what kind of drugs are being sold?" Then if you're lucky they'll send a marked car along in two and a half hours, by which time the seller might have done 50 more deals and vanished.

In other words, the street dealers who keep the trade going get away with it scot free.

Then there is the concept of a trafficable quantity. You can't be charged with dealing if you are caught with less than a "trafficable quantity", and yet a trafficable quantity can be enough for multiple hits, so the dealers are smart and never carry more than the trafficable quantity when they make an appointment to do a deal, and the main supply is stashed in secret somewhere in close proximity.

This is done with the full connivance of our State Labor Government with their failed policy of harm minimization or "holding" drug abuse, which is in place partly because they do not have enough police and partly because the Labor left are as pro-drug as the Greens are.

One Nation is amazed that drugs have hardly been mentioned in the current State election campaign.

Could it be that neither of the major parties have any solutions to the problem?

Statement issued March 18th, 2007 on behalf of One Nation (NSW Division) by Bob Vinnicombe Publicity Officer

For more information contact Bob Vinnicombe 0407949963 / (02) 96454910

Bob Vinnicombe is running as an independent in the seat of Auburn.

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