wespelarno
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If people want drug use cleaned up, heavy penalties on users won't help too much. Instead, put the heavy penalties on the dealers/suppliers/mules.
Jailing a 14 year old kid for something like this is ridiculous. This guy would have been 8 when the schapelle corby event occurred, so hardly old enough to actually take notice of fairly minor international news. He was dumb and definitely a kid with problems, but that doesn't warrant jail term.
Finally, what will jailing him achieve? He will be out in 6 years, a messed up 20 year old with no idea how to exist in normal society. Parents/teachers/sports coaches etc were just about enough to keep me on track sensibly as a teenager. Prison wardens and criminals won't provide any useful moral guidance to this kid. All he will learn is how to not be noticed by people stronger than him and how to take from people weaker than him. Indonesian prisons are violent places. He'll then come back to Australia, uneducated and basically screwed for a large portion of his life.
But I guess he'll have learnt not to buy weed...
Jailing a 14 year old kid for something like this is ridiculous. This guy would have been 8 when the schapelle corby event occurred, so hardly old enough to actually take notice of fairly minor international news. He was dumb and definitely a kid with problems, but that doesn't warrant jail term.
Finally, what will jailing him achieve? He will be out in 6 years, a messed up 20 year old with no idea how to exist in normal society. Parents/teachers/sports coaches etc were just about enough to keep me on track sensibly as a teenager. Prison wardens and criminals won't provide any useful moral guidance to this kid. All he will learn is how to not be noticed by people stronger than him and how to take from people weaker than him. Indonesian prisons are violent places. He'll then come back to Australia, uneducated and basically screwed for a large portion of his life.
But I guess he'll have learnt not to buy weed...