Australia's drug shame revealed

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AUSTRALIA is suffering an acute drug problem, according to an international report which found that the country has one of the highest rates of ecstasy and amphetamine abuse in the world.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration report, obtained under Freedom of Information, paints a grim picture of illegal drug use in Australia.

The report found that criminals are cultivating 5000ha of marijuana crops each year - an area equivalent to more than 2500 Sydney Cricket Grounds - and there are more than 200,000 heroin users in Australia.

The extent of Australia's cannabis cultivation and dependency on illegal substances is revealed in a new US intelligence report which has been obtained by The Sunday Telegraph.

The report also found that ecstasy manufacturers are using oil from the sassafras plant to make the drug, with increased seizure of the oil by customs and police officers.

Cocaine is currently being smuggled into Australia on flights from South America and cocaine importation is set to rise.

It states that inconsistent state laws on precursor chemicals is hindering the fight against drug makers.

The DEA Drug Situation Report for Australia says marijuana is Australia's "most popular and most abused illicit drug" and names NSW and Queensland as "the primary growing areas for outdoor cultivation", with South Australia, Victoria and the ACT also having outdoor plantations.

The report says that methamphetamine manufacturing in Australia is dominated by outlaw motorcycle gangs, with Queensland, NSW and South Australia being the primary production states.

And the report, compiled by the US Government's key drug-fighting agency, warns drug manufacturers in Australia are using a naturally occurring oil to make ecstasy.

It says that among the ingredients being used to make the drugs is oil from the sassafras plant.

"Australian law enforcement and customs officials are seizing increasing amounts of sassafras oil being smuggled through various ports of entry, such as Sydney and Melbourne. Sassafras oil produces

safrole, which can be used as a precursor chemical in the manufacture of MDMA (ecstasy)," the report says.

The report, compiled in July, 2005 says the majority of cocaine is being smuggled into Australia "by couriers on flights originating in South America" and, once in Australia, cars and Parcel Post are used to distribute the drugs around the country.

"As trade links with South America and immigration to Australia increase, the opportunities for cocaine traffickers also increase," the report says.

"As the number of direct commercial airline flights between Australia and South America increase, so does the opportunity for courier smuggling."

South-east Asia is cited as the major source of heroin in Australia, with Sydney being the main point of entry through airports and shipping containers.

The report is based on intelligence gathered by the DEA in Canberra in liaison with local authorities and will be used by the DEA in the global fight against drug trafficking.

Australia's lack of uniform drug laws also attracts criticism in the DEA report.
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Australia's drug shame revealed
By Nick Papps in Los Angeles, The Courier-Mail
02oct05

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what a pile of horse shit
how can a country that is ravaged by its own war on drugs even begin to tell us we have problems??

and as far as not having unifrom drug laws???

52 states each with completely different drug laws, who they fuck are they trying to kid???


i really like the country we live in, i think we have a nice peaceful and diverse community that is caring and tolerant of those within it, not like that rotten hell hole called america that is full of intolerant cunts pulling the strings

what would they like us do??? lock up everyone and have the highest rate of people in jail per head of population in the world.....JUST LIKE THEM????????

fuck off yankee scum....boooo

hello to all yankees that wish to come to australia and NOT tell us what to do and how to do it
 
"once in australia, cars and post are used to transport the drugs"

is this what the americans MULTI BILLION DOLLAR war on drugs is coming up with for intelligence???

i rest my case
 
i agree with everything you said, and im from america.

the only thing id have to argue with you about is that we only have 50 states.
 
badboybikkie said:

i really like the country we live in, i think we have a nice peaceful and diverse community that is caring and tolerant of those within it, not like that rotten hell hole called america that is full of intolerant cunts pulling the strings

what would they like us do??? lock up everyone and have the highest rate of people in jail per head of population in the world.....JUST LIKE THEM????????

fuck off yankee scum....boooo

hello to all yankees that wish to come to australia and NOT tell us what to do and how to do it
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I think that goes a bit far, its as if you've taken this as a personal judgment. Well, from my own 'research' (ie. going out every weekend etc.) I would agree that there are massive amounts of meth and e consumed by young Australians.

Be careful of your own form of intolerance man, I don't think the US at large was damning Austrlians and their drug use- just this report.

Chill out :)
 
I think the fact that we are a healthy and wealthy country says a lot about how personal drug use can be sustained and managed. It says that drugs are only a problem and "shameful" because of the amount that is consumed and cultivated. It mentions nothing about drug related deaths, poverty or missuse leading to an unstable unhealthy country.

I think its a merit to us that we can have a happy healthy culture in which drug taking is almost a norm, because we know how to manage our use. (most of us most of the time ;) ) If you look at other places in the world, like indonesia, they are the ones with the drug problems, not because of their amount of use, but because in the way that drugs are abused in their culture, leading to degradation in quality of living and in doing so affecting the economy.

But perhaps after writing that its a case of the chicken and the egg ?
 
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Well said willow11.


Originally posted by fruitfly
AUSTRALIA is suffering an acute drug problem, according to an international report which found that the country has one of the highest rates of ecstasy and amphetamine abuse in the world.

Cocaine is currently being smuggled into Australia on flights from South America and cocaine importation is set to rise.

I also have to agree on these two statements.
 
there arent enough drugs getting in cos the street prices are still too high.
 
yes your right willow, im displaying the same intolerance i preach against
i dont hate americans or anyone or anything in this world
i dont even hate the war on drugs
it just occasionally gets to me when i see a country like america with its massive social problems trying to tell other nations what their problem is
i mean they told the people of iraq that they would be safe and the killing will stop once they ousted saddam, and when i questioned this here in the political section i was shot to pieces and called all sorts of nasty names
i just hope nobody gives this silly report the light of day
i mean c'mon, their telling us now that the "criminals" are making ecstacy from saffrole oil........ fucken ell thats something i can get from google in 1.324433 seconds
how can the american dea be taken seriously when they are 15 steps behind the rest of the dancers
 
according to the report 1% of our population are herion users.....Sounds a little high for me. Where did they get there facts, Michal moore?
 
yeah, as is pointed out - i have noticed from living in australia for 12 years that it does have one of the highest rates of drug abuse i have seen in the world, but i have never understood this since the prices of drugs in australia are at least 2-3 x higher than anywhere else in the world, even when the exchange rate is taken into account...
 
From what ive heard, Australia is a wonderfull place to visit and live at. I have always wanted to travel there.

It also seems like they are a wealthy country with little poverty overall.... I would like to learn more about Australia but as stated before even though their drug use is above average it seems they can handle themselves.

From what I can tell people use drugs but arent losing there jobs, dropping out of school, and robbing people at gunpoint for shit, ya know?

-weez
 
pffft! They are just looking for excuses for losing The Ashes :D
 
Wow, with the exception of a few details, that report could easily be describing the U.S.

badboybikkie, I agree with most of what you said, but I'd prefer it if you didn't call us all intolerant cunts. :\
 
There is a fine line between use and abuse and the DEA never differentiates between the two. Yeah we do have one of the highest rates of drug use, but drug abuse?? EVERYONE i know does drugs and then goes to work on Monday to keep the economy rolling...
On a side note, why the fuck are the DEA writing reports on Australia???
As far as I know we dont export drugs on any serious level, and I fail to see how any info on Australias drug use has any bearing on DEA activities?
Dont those guys have enough to worry about without sticking their heads up our asses too!
Typical of the DEA to critisize others whilst not doing a fucking thing about their own situation, this is the federal agency that scored a big fat "0" for accoutability, remember?
 
Badboy, i too have many problems with the 'American way' probably the biggest of which is the US governments (and yes, the people as they choose the government) policy of conservatism, fundamentalism and general intolerance.

Good work on admitting your error- I tend to agree with your sentiment but too much vitriol aint good.

I live in Melbourne and am often pretty disgusted with what I see when I go out- eg. the excessive drug use, people dripping sweat and completely flying off their heads, loved up mongheads talking bollocks- give me a peaceful stoner or a tasty psychedlic and I'm happy.

I'm proud to say I do neither speed nor e or cocaine, none of the commonly abused shit over hear.

Drug use is rampant- I worked at a humble petrol station where pretty much everyone was sniffing meth all day- I quit because the manager was a manic nutcase.

I'm not sure that Australia is as lovely as we've been making it sound- depedning where and with whom you grew up and hang out with, we still have pretty desperate and unhappy people around. I don't have a single friend that doesn't take drugs regularly.

Why?
 
hey there jacksusername
i called the people pulling the strings intolerant cunts ie bush chaney rumsfeld and the rest of the goons
i have nothing against anybody in this world for any reason
i dont care where you come from what colour you are etc
im not overly impressed with the clowns running things here either so dont worry, my dislike for your government isnt is there for mine too
 
yeah willow i do agree, i live in the west of melbourne, near sunshine, so i see all sorts of sad sorry cases and i used to go out very regularly until 5 months ago for many many years
yes australia has a drug problem, but no worse than anywhere else in the world.
i know its very confronting to see people dripping with sweat, eyes rolling around and mumbling shit, but its better than 20 years ago when everyone drank until they started to punch each other
i think why i get upset is that our drug use in australia works
we dont have a mammoth problem, we have a MANAGABLE problem
i understand that when you work with people fucked up on wizzer that its very disheartning, but just look for something better.
i personally gave up on society and playing the game years ago, i prefer i quiet choof all day to working now(coz i can hahaha!!) mainly coz most people are fuckin idiots at work, BUT....at least we are mainly all working to fund our drug habits, hell man i even know chicks that put the shit on their credit cards(well use credited money anyway!!) but they pay it off!
but we dont have too many deaths from SENSIBLE drug users, peolple who die after consuming a large quantity of unknown and untested pills are the same people who would die from pushing something else to the edge if drugs werent their thing, for example base jumping claims its fair share of lives(isnt it illegal too?) yet it can be a perfectly sport if done sensibly...or can it??!
look i've seen girls whose lives have spiralled out of control on mad shopping binges, who cares what your into so long as your happy
i guess im sick of hearing that once the worlds all cleaned up of drugs we'll be happy arrrrrgggghhhhhhhh
 
The report found that criminals are cultivating 5000ha of marijuana crops each year - an area equivalent to more than 2500 Sydney Cricket Grounds
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Does this strike anyone else as a really strange, esoteric comparasion of size?
 
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