Blight of drugs

HEALTH tsars might call for drugs to be decriminalised (Mail), but no thought is given to the neighbours of those who want to indulge in a lifestyle based on drugs.

Last year, a housing officer saw fit to place a 21-year-old cannabis smoker and dealer in our quiet street of older, professional people.

We had to put up with numerous young men visiting his flat, cars screeching up day and night — and the strong smell of skunk wafting into our properties. He had a young child living among all this.

The smell was terrible, my heart condition worsened and I felt lightheaded, irritable and sick. My neighbours couldn’t work in their home office, another local’s asthma worsened and someone else could not have their grandchild visiting. Our little street in a conservation area changed overnight.

Suggesting this man attend a drug awareness course would have been ridiculous. He and his friends have made themselves unemployable through addiction and somehow seem to avoid Jobcentre interviews.

This is the way they want it — free to carry on their lifestyle funded by taxpayers. They have no intention of ever getting clean and taking a job to earn money.

As drugs are illegal, we eventually managed to get him moved, though we had to force the council and the police to act. What will happen if drugs are legalised? Would we just have to put up with it while our health and wellbeing deteriorates?

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