Legalise the drug trade

Substances which by their high universal demand from princes and paupers, substances whose demand create a multi-billion dollar annual global turnover cannot be hypocritically continued to be termed illegal.

When these substances are duly legalised and one loses his "substance" by theft he could boldly go and report the theft. At present, with the hypocritical aura of illegality — street justice is the order of the day when such incidents occur.

Mr Prime Minister by taking this motion to the UN you would be taking a course where history has indelibly recorded the power of one. Names like, Mahatma Ghandi, Dr Martin Luther King, Ms Parks, and former president Robinson on the Creation of the ICC, Nelson Mandela and others, have shown that they didn’t continue to jump on one foot like everybody else.

The talk about winning the global war on drugs is only hollow rhetoric.

University students who use substance are going to be the leaders of tomorrow. Infants who are addicted from the womb, when substance crosses from the placenta to the foetus, are the new generation of tomorrow’s users.

Therefore, if illegal substances are so profoundly required by human beings — the hypocrisy of its existence and availability must be put into a proper legal context.

C WEEKES

Carenage