Okay no seriously… dont hang them…
We’re really all not that bad…

Honestly though…
Its human nature to walk the line between certain chaos and order…
between what’s extremely psycho and seemingly cool…

Do one thing that scares you every day of your life…
That’s the way to live your life… and some ppl take it a step too far by doing things that are indeed scary and in fact dangerously harmful!

So where does that leave the drug traffickers and the drug users…?
Drug users should be institutionalised… in a VERY high security institution, and should be treated for their addiction…

Drug traffickers should be put in jailed and have all their wealth (gained from trafficking) taken from them… if and when they are release they should have their assets watched by someone…

And there should be a world unified effort to find out WHERE the hell and WHO the hell is producing these drugs…
find them…
shut them down….
Problem solved!

Easier said than done though huh?

Well, usually you can escape bearing the full responsibility of a person’s death but would still be partially responsible. For example, the trafficker would not sell the drug to the addict as he has no money and hence, the addict robbed and killed someone to pay for his drugs. Although the drug trafficker was not directly involved in the murder and robbery, he was the indirect cause to why the addict did what he did. If he did not approach or allow himself to be approached by the addict, none of these would have happened. But bear in mind that this a very subjective matter. The degree to which a defendant (the trafficker for example) is responsible depends on how heavy the consequences of his action is.

Who’s forcing the drug users to buy the drugs from them? If I was approached by a drug seller in a party, and I declined, nothing’s gonna happen to me. I can opt out. But it’s different if a guy with a butcher knife comes after me just because I insulted his taste in clothes. He didn’t give me the option to opt out. He’s stabbing is the direct result of my death. A drug trafficker/seller isn’t, if I didn’t opt to buy it from them.

Rapist rape ppl and cause unwanted pregnancy and further social problems but drug trafficking leads to robbery, murder, theft, rape, and loads of other crimes. So weighing all the consequences caused by drug trafficking, I think the punishment is justified as appropriate. In fact, if they were given life sentence, they might use the prison officers as their middle person to keep in contact with other drug lords. I mean, c’mon..you think those prison officers won’t forego the benefits? I doubt so =)

But I do agree that lethal injections should be used instead. It is definitely more humane. Hanging is a wee bit too old fashion and horrible.

Cynthia: Interesting question. It is notable that trafficking drugs in Malaysia, like Singapore, carries a mandatory death sentence. Remember Barlow-Chambers execution in 1986? They were two white Australian men. The Australian PM then, Bob Hawke also made a passionate plea to our former Dr. Mahathir; and Hawke made a cynical remark that the execution style was “barbaric”, which made Dr. Mahathir pissed and later led an aggressive Anti-Australian sentiment which almost harmed bilateral ties between the two countries.