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Illegal Drug Use- Liphook etc - Just Another Local (2nd Aug 2025 - 11:26:59) Just reading an article today and it got me thinking. With nearly 10% of the UK adult population using illegal hard drugs, it's probably fair to say that equals about 500 people in the Liphook area, on average. No village, town or city is immune. Apart from the harm it does the user and their family, hard drug use affects crime not just locally or nationally, but globally. Just one drug for example, over 100 tons of cocaine was smuggled into the UK last year from South America with only about 5-10% being intercepted by law enforcement altogether and their methods are getting harder to detect with underwater drones etc! It fuels not just the vicious drugs gangs here, but mass murder and terror in far flung countries in places like central and south America, the Caribbean, Asia, where often whole frightened communities live in terror of the ruthless drug gang murderers. All the criminality along the whole line is paid for by the end user, looking for a fix, waiting for their man, £50 in their hand, without the end user there would be no trade, no millionaires fighting for control, no pushers, peddlers or middle men, no kingpins or producers or other drug fuelled crime . So ironically the person funding the whole thing is both the enabler and the victim, the addict at the end of the line. It's hard, but there is supposedly plenty of help on offer, and if you have kids they will at some point be offered these drugs, just for fun, to join in and not be a prude they'll be told, so make sure you've discussed it with them as best as you can, I'm sure schools teach this but how effective it is I don't know and I''m sure parents are doing their best, I'm not one who blames the parents for all of societies shortcomings! Let's all be vigilant, because it's here, the UK is per capita one if the biggest consumers of this nasty contraband and it can affect anyone, rich, poor, great parents and everyone in-between, in fact stressed out middle class employees from 'good families' are apparently one of the the largest demographics by consumption!!

Re: Illegal Drug Use- Liphook etc - Grape (2nd Aug 2025 - 13:39:05) Fair enough, most of what you write rings true. But just because there are a few good parents failing their children, the vast majority of failed children are cultivated by failed parents. There are statistical significant differences. Just because the problem occurs throughout society, that doesn't mean that it is evenly spread through society. Denying and hiding the significant differences between societal sectors is a folly that will be unhelpful in dealing with the problem. This soft socialist view of 'we are all the same' betrays the truth and hinders progress. There is much to gain by targeting the more prone parts of society, types of "parenting" resulting in more drug abuse. Studies into the typology of failed families should be taken into account when tackling the problem. Lets stop masking, covering up the difference in the false believe we're protecting the vulnerable from a harsh reality. Stop hiding the truth, sunlight is a very good remedy.

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