Millions the world over are addicted to narcotic drugs. Their lives are ruined. Their families are in disarray.
All this suffering is because selling drugs has become a lucrative avenue for a bunch of people who want to become filthy rich – taking the shortest route. They don’t care how they make money or whose lives they destroy. They are only bothered about the millions they make from the drug business.
Their children are educated with the money that have destroyed the education of millions. They buy fancy cars and houses from the money gained from turning people into addicts.
Illicit money
They go on holidays and stay in luxury hotels, with the money gained from destroying families. Do these thoughts not traumatise their minds? Are their families not aware of the illicit money that make their wealth?
Drug addiction is a menace to families and society. Addicted people are of no use to themselves, their families or society.
They become a burden to society as the families and State have to spend on their rehabilitation and re-introduction into society. It takes years of time and money. Their productivity and years are lost.
All this is unnecessary if the wicked few who bring drugs into a country, distribute them and draw others into becoming addicts are dealt with and rehabilitated instead. Their sick minds need medication. Their sick mentality to make money by destroying lives is what should be treated first.
These same people are also pumping money to create computer games, gambling systems, pornography and other ill-methods to draw people to become addicts so they can get richer quicker.
All narcotic drugs are impacting on people’s nervous systems – opium, marijuana, cocaine, nicotine, heroin, even alcohol and nicotine are addictive modes. They affect the psychological and physical aspects of the people who consume them.
The law enforcements always run after the entities who are simply paid to distribute and induce people to take drugs.
The real culprits are those who bring the illegal drugs into the country and create a nexus for its distribution.
Ill effects
To have over millions of people addicted to make a handful rich is a crime. The productivity of these millions are wasted.
Their homes are in ruins. The hopes and aspirations parents had for their addicted children have gone down the drain. They end up having to spend whatever earnings they have, trying to meet the medical costs for rehabilitation.
The wicked souls that bring the drugs, put them out into the market, distribute them through crafty means to children and youth – take their families to plush hotels, buy them the most modern and up-to-date gadgets, travel in luxury cars and spend the blood money on themselves and with that create more nefarious ventures to create more victims to enlarge their wealth. This money is even used to campaign to bring themselves to power or to bring others who will help them continue their illegal wealth making system.
Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera has been appointed the Law and Order Minister. No sooner he was appointed, the Excise Department on a tip off seized 100kg of heroin and 100kg of ICE with a street value of over Rs.300m.
Who are these masterminds operating from Dubai – who are their agents in Sri Lanka? No sooner their identities are established; they must be barred from entering Sri Lanka.
All those connected with them must be investigated. We cannot expect to make any meaningful campaign against drugs if the main culprits are untouched and political pressure prevents action from being taken against them.
We must have the courage to deal with the main culprits that bring drugs into the country, those who facilitate these drugs being brought into the country, then those who are tasked to distribute the drugs while simultaneously running programs to show the end result of taking drugs, to educate the youth and adults on the dangers of experimenting with drugs and becoming addicted to them.
There should also be programs to address the psychological issues those who are addicted to drugs to help them recover.