Today’s drug addiction and society’s apparent inability to respond properly; perhaps it would behoove us to tackle one of the main roots of the problem – drug dealers and suppliers.
Why not create the legislation necessary to come down exceedingly hard on them.
Raising the maximum sentence for hard drug offences, more room and flexibility will be given to determine what sentence or sentence demand is appropriate given the circumstances of specific cases.
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Also, by increasing the maximum sentences for hard drug offences, Fiji will be more in line with first world countries when it comes to the criminal law approach to serious drug crime, often committed in the context of a criminal organisation.
This could be one constructive and direct way we can deal with one of the defining dilemmas of our present time.
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