This evening Rob, Chris, Gill, Michelle and I went to a drug talk put on by our local police station, where they gave us a drug awareness talk. Well I sat there most of the 2 hours with my jaw on the floor.
Did you know that Cape Town is the drug capital of the world!!! We have over 250 000 containers moving in and out of our docks every WEEK. As was pointed out tonight, in the good old days, you could not enter the docks without being practically strip searched, now anyone can float in and out whenever they please.
The bit that freaked me out the most was hearing that the best heroine addicts inject a tiny needle full of heroin into their eyes [ aaaaaaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhhhh], they usually carry the eye drops with the needle to clear the slightly red eyes.
The costs of the drugs are unreal, I can understand why so many people sell drugs, excellent mark-up for e.g. a drug that costs 9c to make is sold for R25.
The kids, although they have had these talks at school found it quite informative and asked some really interesting questions.
SAPS even have a huge catalogue of all the different pictures of the drug E. What was so interesting was getting see the actual samples of the drugs. Below is a sample of the drug E that the night clubs feed to their patrons for free so that they will but the drinks to quench their thirst induced by their high energy levels and excessive dancing.
The Methamphetamine (aka Tik) was an eye opener as well.
Facts
Did you know that Cape Town is the drug capital of the world!!! We have over 250 000 containers moving in and out of our docks every WEEK. As was pointed out tonight, in the good old days, you could not enter the docks without being practically strip searched, now anyone can float in and out whenever they please.
The bit that freaked me out the most was hearing that the best heroine addicts inject a tiny needle full of heroin into their eyes [ aaaaaaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhhhh], they usually carry the eye drops with the needle to clear the slightly red eyes.
The costs of the drugs are unreal, I can understand why so many people sell drugs, excellent mark-up for e.g. a drug that costs 9c to make is sold for R25.
The kids, although they have had these talks at school found it quite informative and asked some really interesting questions.
SAPS even have a huge catalogue of all the different pictures of the drug E. What was so interesting was getting see the actual samples of the drugs. Below is a sample of the drug E that the night clubs feed to their patrons for free so that they will but the drinks to quench their thirst induced by their high energy levels and excessive dancing.
The Methamphetamine (aka Tik) was an eye opener as well.
Facts
- after 5 uses you are addicted and cannot get off it without help
- only called TIK in South Africa (simple language for a 3rd world country)
- reason its called TIK is because when the 'bulb' is heated up the gases from the drug make a tik, tik, tik sound.
- The user will normally use a 'blow torch' type lighter to light their pipe because it burn hotter and does not make the glass black. This way they can see how much of the drug they have smoked
- they normally buy it in straws, which are easily hidden in lighters, wallets etc.
Below is a picture of a TIK pipe that has been smoked as you can see the residue on the pipe.
One night whilst on patrol (Rob patrols for our local neighbourhood watch www.bkmwatch.org.za) he and one of his patrol buddies stopped some 'gentlemen' and found them in possession of a digital scale, but nothing else. Well after tonight's presentation, he now knows what he's looking for and knows to call the police to come and search the vehicle as they are guaranteed to have drugs somewhere for e.g. behind the hooter, in cut cut in the fabric of the seat that they slide it into etc etc.
It is such a sheltered world we live in, hearing what goes on out there, with 11 year old girls acting as the runners between the buyers and merchants and for that running this little girl is paid R250 per day (3 years ago - imagine what they are getting now!)
I just hope and pray to the good Lord above that our boys are able to make the right choices in their lives and never cross the lines into the world of drugs. We can give them all the rules and regulations, but at the end of the day it is all about choices and more particularly they choices they make.
One night whilst on patrol (Rob patrols for our local neighbourhood watch www.bkmwatch.org.za) he and one of his patrol buddies stopped some 'gentlemen' and found them in possession of a digital scale, but nothing else. Well after tonight's presentation, he now knows what he's looking for and knows to call the police to come and search the vehicle as they are guaranteed to have drugs somewhere for e.g. behind the hooter, in cut cut in the fabric of the seat that they slide it into etc etc.
It is such a sheltered world we live in, hearing what goes on out there, with 11 year old girls acting as the runners between the buyers and merchants and for that running this little girl is paid R250 per day (3 years ago - imagine what they are getting now!)
I just hope and pray to the good Lord above that our boys are able to make the right choices in their lives and never cross the lines into the world of drugs. We can give them all the rules and regulations, but at the end of the day it is all about choices and more particularly they choices they make.
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