Previous post "About Bali Nine death sentence and Indonesia-Australia standoff". Latest update, "Indonesia rejects Australian offer to pay for pair's jail time" (Yahoo Sg).
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Indonesia has rejected offer to maintain pair's jail time. The decision is probably made to prevent future clemency for drug traffickers.
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Anyway, heroin is no recreational drug. Heroin is hardcore drug and very addictive. Difficulty in withdrawal (or discontinuation from usage) is the reason addicts resort to crimes (and some resorted to violence) in order to get the next kick. Prostitution/slavery is associated with heroin usage as well. What more is there to say? Heroin and morphine (although given to terminally ill and suffering patients) shouldn't be misused for monetary gain while destroying/enslaving healthy lives.
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8.3 kg is a lot of heroin. Note that a newborn weighs about 3 kg. So the amount of heroin Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran (along the Bali Nine) were dealing corresponds to almost three newborn babies.
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How many lives/families would have been affected/destroyed if this quantity was used to entice new drug abusers (those "adventurous" young minds)?
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It's true that alcohol and cigarettes are addictive too, but there is no withdrawal symptoms to deal with and addicts are not desperate that they have to resort to crime to get the next kick. Similarly, sniffing glues, drinking concocted cough syrup, and smoking pots are addictive but they too don't possess the difficult to handle withdrawal symptoms that really push addicts into desperation to get the next dose.
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So, heroin is dangerous.
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