Ghettos getting dangerous H-METRO
COMPLIANCE with Covid-19 regulations has generally been a problem, especially in the central business district (CBD) and high density areas.
However, high-density suburbs have been the worst as life has been going on as normal in those areas.
People still gather at shopping centres even when shops are closed and it is getting worse by the hour. Another rampant and worrying activity has been drug abuse, especially smoking of marijuana in most areas.
The youth are locked in their neighbourhoods and most of them have nothing to do.
Resorting to drugs has been easy for most of them and the danger is other kids are being introduced to drugs and this can ruin their future.
The problem is, despite the lockdown, drugs were still finding their way into the suburbs and that illegal business is still thriving.
Policymakers must curb the influx of drugs into communities and concerned citizens must report and help police with information that can lead to the arrest of these criminals out to destroy the youths.
Society usually knows when drug peddlers are in their environments and homes, but does nothing most of the times.
The result is a drug-infested country that does so much harm to the youths that are trying to find their purpose in life.
Some of the most regrettable things in life happen while people are under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
It is common for both grown men and youths to wake up in the morning wondering or regretting “what happened last night.”
A few youths have died, some being found floating in pools, over suspected abuse of alcohol. Cases about people abusing alcohol and drugs — especially marijuana — are always at the courts. Almost every week, the media is awash with reports of mostly young men who would have been nabbed either for abusing drugs or illegally dealing in them.
What is worrying is how more and more drugs keep finding their way to the youths and why the whole process is not being stopped.
While it is widely known that marijuana is an illegal and dangerous drug, it is also not a secret that most youths — especially in the high density areas — openly smoke the drug the same way they smoke other legal cigarettes.
It is one thing to arrest wrongdoers of petty crimes like youths who are caught sharing one smoke of marijuana but getting rid of the problem is asking them where they got it and asking whoever gave them where he got it until we reach the source of the problem.
Most of the drugs are coming from neighbouring countries and there is need to find out how they are crossing our border and who is behind the whole operation.
We need to have more drug lords in jails where they belong.