PETERS – A child finding drugs in a park isn’t new, but it’s no less frightening
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WE SHOULD BE CAREFUL not to completely overreact to the story this week of a mom finding a baggie of drugs among her young child’s Easter candy.
The substance hasn’t been tested yet, but you’re not likely to find small baggies of, say, sea salt out in public.
The baggie came home in an Easter basket after a church-run egg hunt in Riverside Park on Saturday.
It’s a situation that is both unfortunate and frightening, and it’s understandable why the family is rattled.
The danger from simply handling drugs has been vastly overstated over the years, especially by law enforcement authorities with the goal of creating fear.
The biggest threat drugs present to people who don’t use drugs is not in the incidental contact, but in the violence present in the illegal drug trade. But that’s another story.
Incidental contact may not be particularly dangerous, but ingestion absolutely is — and when a young child finds drugs in among the chocolate and candy they are already ravenously gobbling up, that scenario verges on horrific tragedy.
James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.
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Having an Easter egg “hunt” at Riverside Park was/is certainly a bad idea under the current paradigm. Could JP comment on that?
We need fewer people suffering from substance use disorder and fewer people using drugs, and then we’ll get fewer dangerous situations like this…no kidding, that’s the solution for sure…because it is just that easy folks.
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