Be involved – Whangarei Leader – 11th June 2013
Synthetic substances
My wife and I went to support the organisers of the protest against synthetic substances
(drugs) on June 4. It was an eye opening experience of many levels. We learnt that these substances are being
sold from a number of outlets in our
CBD and how many people are buying the products and that it can affect society
at all levels. If other such events take
place we urge people to get along in support of them.
Do not turn a blind eye, walk around in a dream and pretend it is not happening. There are lost soles in our community that
are other people's family and friends and they all need us to care, show our
opposition to this remaining a legal substance and look for the answers to why
such stuff is happening.
We need to support the many organisations that help these
people. If you think you can turn your
back on these things and do nothing, that it will never affect you, sorry but
you are wrong and it already is.
This situation is alive and kicking happening in every part of this country and our
beautiful area is no exception.
Is your child going to school with kids that are
taking this, are you working alongside someone that has taken it and yet you
rely on them to be able to work with lethal machinery? Who is driving that car coming towards
you? It’s a game of chance and you are a
player whether you like it or not.
There is only one way to get out of the game and
that is for us, as a community, to support these people running such events, so
we can all be winners. If we want to
lift this society we live in we have to lift it from the bottom, all the way
up.
Warren Slater
Maunu
Items that were
abridged by the Whangarei Leader are in italics, (for their published copy)