>>THE Bali Nine are not getting much sympathy in Indonesia, and why should they? <<
I would ask all users, before they go out looking for street and club dealers or call their regular suppliers, to consider the risks that mules take to keep up their supplies.
A few ‘happy’ hours for users could well mean the death of the people they look to for their drugs. If, as so often happens, recreational users become addicted they can find themselves couriering drugs to maintain their habit, if they die from an overdose or contaminated supplies we mourn their death but blame the mules.
I hold no brief for anyone involved in supplying drugs, no matter what their involvement, but the user is as much part of the problem as the couriers. Leaving the mule to suffer the consequences is not the answer.
I don’t have the answer, but for as long as there are users our demonising of the mules will change nothing. It is way past time for people who seek out drugs to realize that they are asking other people to risk death for them.
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