The Conception that Youth Cause Drug Related Crime, Police Disagree - Polidicks

This article explains how there is a big misconception in the media, and in most people's eyes that youth are the ones perpetrating most drug related crimes, and drug abusive-behaviour. This article tries to disprove that through quotations, and shows possible reasoning why youth are targeted. Original Article: [URL]http://www.yourottawaregion.com/news/article/898420--youth-not-main-source-of-drug-problem-police[/URL] [quote] the detachment commander for the Lanark County OPP, Inspector Gerry Salisbury, noted that there is a public perception that drug related charges predominantly come from youth. “We can’t sit back and say that it’s always the youth that are using drugs,”[/quote][quote]“Adults own private space, youth do not. Therefore we can see more of what youth do because they often only have public space available to do it (drugs,)” says Julie Willbond, the outreach coordinator of TYPS youth centre (Taking Young People Seriously.) “What youth do doesn’t happen in a vacuum,” she said, “Youth can reflect what is taking place in society on a larger scale.”[/quote][IMG]http://www.cnylink.com/news_images/sml/drugstoryphotorgb.jpg[/IMG] What does facepunch think. Why does this misconception occur, is it truthful, or not?

They have a point, I'm 16 and even though I can smoke weed at my house most of my friends either do it in their car or trespassing or in the local state park. I've sold plenty of weed and pills to people over 20 though. Rate me boxes because michigan is in a one state depression and the only job i can find is selling drugs, but doing them is pretty cool too.

Well I only know teenagers that do drugs, then again, I don't have a bunch of 20+ homies that tell me they smoke weed and snort coke in their houses.

Hardcore drug users are generally the chronically homeless. [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] and they deserve rehabilitation, not punishment

I know lots of older people that use drugs. I've got a 50-year-old cousin who's a heroin addict, and my 70-year-old great-uncle smokes weed for a back injury.

how do you get a 50 year old cousin

Because, as we all know, Tony Montana was actually 14

[QUOTE=Lambeth;26132470]how do you get a 50 year old cousin[/QUOTE] Second cousin. Same great-grandparents.

teenagers are great scapegoats though

Damn kids these days. :argh:

I know some people older than 50 who still take ecstasy. Definitely hope I'm still going strong in 30 years time.

I dunno about you all but I always see high 50, 60 and 70 year olds rollin' it aww yeah style.

[QUOTE=Strongbad;26137425]I dunno about you all but I always see high 50, 60 and 70 year olds rollin' it aww yeah style.[/QUOTE] Well they have common source of money, so they can, there are some teenagers just getting high and doing nothing. Not to be hypocrite, I also get high on loads of stuff, but I also care about future very much.

Read the article guys, I wrote it actually. At the bottom, there are some reasons that are elaborated on by people in my community who have devoted themselves to helping youth in the area, and some of their reasoning is that most youth don't have priovate space, so naturally they sped more time doing drugs in public places because they don't have access to the amount of privacy that full adults have.[ That automatically skews how people perceive drug use. The ones consuming drugs in public spaces do so because they don't have any other option.