What does that level and method of policing and punishment look like? So far, all you've suggested is drug testing but I don't think that will work on its own.
Would you support a damn good kick up the kybher?
I guess it depends upon what you want to prevent, if it's people blowing a joint I'd say pretty much nothing is required, if you're trying to stop merkins popping shit pills and dying, then the pill testing thing showed plenty of promise.
If you're trying to eradicate the evil scourge of all drugs ever, maybe the tactical response group should be re-formed.
But really, a police presence, who could search merkins without going to the extreme of stripping them naked, would be far more acceptable, it's still gonna be abused by some, but at least the level of abuse would be far less.
Here's a story on accuracy........
The Victorian Greens claim that drug sniffer dogs are incorrect 75 per cent of the time. Fact Check finds that claim to be close to the mark.
www.abc.net.au
........I'd highlight the last quote there...
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Although some admissions may support the accuracy of drug detection dogs in picking up the scent of prohibited drugs, this should not be confused with the accuracy of the dogs detecting persons currently in possession of prohibited drugs, which is the purpose for their use."
Now when you look at the numbers listed in that article, it seems to me that if more often than not the "evidence" being used to justify a strip search is shown to be wrong, then it's unreasonable to use it as primary, or indeed the only test by which to determine such a search is justifiable.
Particularly when you consider their use in what is deemed "high risk" places or events, because if those places or events are actually "high risk", then you'd expect a statistically significant success rate from simply picking random merkins out of the crowd.
I guess another way to look at it would be would you be supportive of expanding this method of policing to regularly being used on everyday merkins in situations like going to Westfield's at Parra for a bit of shopping, or wandering around Martin Place at lunchtime?
To make a comparison on a more contemporary level, until recent changes to the law here in NSW, police could not demand to see a medical exemption for merkins not wearing masks in contravention of public health orders because the privacy act protects peoples right to privacy over health matters. Yet they could strip search those same merkins because a dog that cannot distinguish between residual traces of a drug and the actual presence of a drug indicates that person may be in possession of a drug.
I think that's indicative of how those that craft legislation think about how different classes or demographics of folks should be afforded protections under the law.
tdda.com
