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Editorial: Why will they not just listen?

By Roger Moroney
Northern Advocate·
17 Dec, 2013 04:00 PM2 mins to read

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Councils and the majority of the community don't want pyschoactive substances sold in their town.

Councils and the majority of the community don't want pyschoactive substances sold in their town.

The majority rules, or a show of hands, is a pretty common sense and clear-cut example of democracy at work and is taken up in the place where the people we employ to speak for us speak for us. Although going by the broadcasts of Parliament, it's more often a cynical stand-up comedy act.

The "ayes" have it when it comes to making a decision, which would, in most circumstances, lead us to believe the Government is doing things absolutely spot on.

Yet we appear to have a situation now where the majority are being ignored, which is negatively impacting daily on the lives of ... the majority.

One person reacting badly to a legal psychoactive substance will affect, in some way, a dozen or more people who will walk away wondering how it is such items are able to be sold over a counter.

They would, I daresay, like to suggest the seller of such idiocy pop along to the outpatients or the police cell or the shattered bedroom of someone whose mind was not designed to be made artificially active by a substance rightly dubbed "psycho".

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Councils don't want this chemical rubbish in their cities and the majority of communities do not want to see it either ... but there it is. Sold over the counter ... legal drugs.

It is absolutely clear it is damaging people and staining the lives of those who have to deal with the results.

But the councils can only nominate a place for it to be sold - they cannot ban it.

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Only the Government can do that. The same Government that, in its own moment of non-psychoactive but natural delusion, allowed the things in here in the first place.

Make this a voting issue and ask your party contestant for a one-word straight answer: Will you work to ban them?

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