Aboriginal kids on pot
Siggy and Darren write to share a story on Australian Aborigine kids smoking pot.
ABORIGINAL children as young as eight are smoking marijuana, with the drug replacing petrol sniffing in some remote Northern Territory communities, according to indigenous MP Alison Anderson.
Ms Anderson told the Northern Territory Parliament yesterday that smugglers are using unusual methods to avoid police detection, including sewing marijuana inside kangaroo carcasses or hiding it in women's underwear because male police are not allowed to body search them at road blocks.
Ms Anderson, a former NT indigenous affairs minister from the central Australian community of Papunya, called for a wide-ranging inquiry into substance abuse.
She said money that is not quarantined for food and other essential items under the federal indigenous intervention was going to marijuana dealers.
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I agree with maestro, marijuana is one of the only illegal drugs that can actually curb the use of and addiction to harder drugs, like stimulants, opiates, and apparently inhalants too. To my mind comes a former crack addict who was always drunk if he couldn't get two big bags of pot every week. But he wasn't smoking crack... if he could get what he wanted, pot would be all he needed.
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