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[paliometoxo]

i dont think this should be in cy problem i found this article more funny then a cy problem.. ;p


A 63-YEAR-OLD granny and her teenage granddaughter were yesterday remanded in six-day custody after they were caught attempting to smuggle heroin from the occupied areas.

The duo were arrested around 6.50pm on Friday when they were stopped getting into a taxi. Apparently, the 63-year-old was spotted throwing a nylon bag to the ground minutes before the search. The bag, which she had hidden in her bra, contained 50 grams of heroin, police said.

According to reports, the 63-year-old had met her son and daughter-in-law who had given her the narcotics to transport to the free areas. Arrest warrants have been issued for the couple.

A search of her 17-year-old granddaughter’s home as well as the older woman’s uncovered no new evidence, police said.

Commenting on the arrest yesterday, Drug Squad assistant commander Avraam Charalambous said moving drugs, especially heroin, across the Green Line to the free areas had taken on uncontrollable proprtions.

Referring to the married couple’s use of the minor and their mother to act as mules, he said: “Drug traffickers, users and criminals cannot ask the elderly or minors to take part in their illegal work.”

The 63-year-old’s son and daughter-in-law had on numerous occasions been to the occupied areas and been searched upon their return without anything having been found in their possession until now, Charalambous said.

He also did not rule out the possibility that the suspects had “on other occasions used relatives to transport drugs from the occupied areas”.

“It is impermissible and criminal to use minors to dupe the authorities in order to achieve their illegal intentions,” he said.

Asked to comment to what extent the Drug Squad was able to monitor all four Green Line checkpoints 24-hours a day, Charalambous said that based on information it received it tried, “discretely and daily”, to control “suspicious persons’ suspicious movements” when they came from the occupied areas.



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[roseandchan]

i have no time for anyone invoved in heroin. cyprus needs to stamp this out now before it gets out of hand like in the uk. i have first hand experience of what that shit does to people. i agree with the iranians, hang them after all they are mass murders!

[paliometoxo]

i think everywhere has a drug problem there no country in the world where people dont sell drugs and no one in that country does not use... t will never be stopped

[Agios Ionas]

As long as there is a demand there will be a supply. As long as there is BIG money in taking risks people will engage themselves in smuggling. If people want to poison themselves they will. Be it excessive use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs. Some are legal and some are not. But at the end of the day the results are the same. Health issues and/or death.

[roseandchan]

with heroin its usually death, sooner. unlike alcohol and tobacco which are longer lived addictions. my grandmother smoked and she lived to 86. i can't think of anyone who has lived that long on heroin. i know a few people who died of it in there teens and twenties. now the crack cocaine has taken over from it in the uk so i'm told.

[paliometoxo]

the strongest pain killer in the world heroin. a grandmother willing to smuggle it from the north with her gand-daughter :S

[Oracle]

Narcotics would never be a problem to society if they were decriminalised, but regulated simply like tobacco and alcohol.

[Agios Ionas]

Narcotics would never be a problem to society if they were decriminalised, but regulated simply like tobacco and alcohol.

It's nice to see someone brave enough to say this because it is true... to some extent. It would still be a problem, but less of a problem.

Lots of resources would be freed to be used on solving real crimes instead of chasing junkies with a blow torch.

Tax money would be collected to be used to help those with an addiction... or simply to improve infrastrucure, health care and schooling in general.

Drug producing countries would be able to cash in on the crops rather than having to waste money on fighting the criminal elements who currently are hijacking this kind of business.

The problem is though, that some people just simply don't know what moderation is. There will be people abusing substances. Some can drink, some turn into raging alcoholics. Some can smoke 2 cigarettes/day, some smoke 2 packs. Some can handle recreational drug use on an occasional basis, some are destined to lead a life in the gutter. Tax money collected on the sales could possibly be used to help these people though.

Pricing would be essential otherwise there will be a black market, just as there is for both alcohol and tobacco.

The good thing is that if it's government controlled chances are that the product is much more clean and less hazardous to the end user. We can all agree on that eg heroin isn't good for you, but it's even worse if it's cut with God knows what. Doctors would be able to subscribe the perfect dose for people who wish to use it etc.

Sadly while legalisation/decriminalisation and taxation would solve many problems I think it's impossible to enforce. Because the society of today is not ready to allow people to submit themselves to the law of natural selection. It's a question about morals rather than money. I don't know... I'd like to say that people should be able to choose for themselves and hopefully be smart about any potential drug use (including alcohol and tobacco which clearly are drugs... hell, even coffee is). But... well, I don't know. It's not so easy after all I guess.

[paliometoxo]

in neherlands some drugs are like magic mushrooms and weed they get on just fine....

as stupid as it is to take drugs it should be up tot he person, hell everyone is allowed to smoke and drink they areent exactly good for u.. btu the waring on the smoke packs make it ok....

if someone is stupid enough to take drugs like heroin then it should be up to the person,

but you really think it would stop? it would just happen twice as much..

[paliometoxo]

Narcotics would never be a problem to society if they were decriminalised, but regulated simply like tobacco and alcohol.

It's nice to see someone brave enough to say this because it is true... to some extent. It would still be a problem, but less of a problem.

Lots of resources would be freed to be used on solving real crimes instead of chasing junkies with a blow torch.

Tax money would be collected to be used to help those with an addiction... or simply to improve infrastrucure, health care and schooling in general.

Drug producing countries would be able to cash in on the crops rather than having to waste money on fighting the criminal elements who currently are hijacking this kind of business.

The problem is though, that some people just simply don't know what moderation is. There will be people abusing substances. Some can drink, some turn into raging alcoholics. Some can smoke 2 cigarettes/day, some smoke 2 packs. Some can handle recreational drug use on an occasional basis, some are destined to lead a life in the gutter. Tax money collected on the sales could possibly be used to help these people though.

Pricing would be essential otherwise there will be a black market, just as there is for both alcohol and tobacco.

The good thing is that if it's government controlled chances are that the product is much more clean and less hazardous to the end user. We can all agree on that eg heroin isn't good for you, but it's even worse if it's cut with God knows what. Doctors would be able to subscribe the perfect dose for people who wish to use it etc.

Sadly while legalisation/decriminalisation and taxation would solve many problems I think it's impossible to enforce. Because the society of today is not ready to allow people to submit themselves to the law of natural selection. It's a question about morals rather than money. I don't know... I'd like to say that people should be able to choose for themselves and hopefully be smart about any potential drug use (including alcohol and tobacco which clearly are drugs... hell, even coffee is). But... well, I don't know. It's not so easy after all I guess.

i kind of agree with what you say but the drug heads what do they do once they run out of money?? they end up robbing shops stores people and do anything to get a quick fix... this is not a very good thing i am sure and ive never tried drugs but i am guessing it bleeds your wallet dry and then you end up in prison for drugs aswell as beating up an old lady for her money.... so also crimes would probably go up younger kids will find ways to get drugs like they smoke and everyone will be dead within a few years....