You may not realize it yet, but Feb. 4, 2025, was a very historic day. The made the biggest drug raid in the history of the North, which includes Nunavut and Yukon. Congratulations to the !
Among other things, they seized $360,000 in cash. It boggles the mind that the drug dealers had that amount of cash just laying around. With that kind of cash, you could buy a pizza a day for the rest of your life and then some. Here is something else to think about: all of that money was quite possibly from the proceeds of selling drugs. So, it was potentially going to be taken out of the NWT and laundered somewhere, somehow. No taxes would have been taken from it and given to the government. The GST owing on that amount of money would be five per cent or $18,000. The police also seized 4.7 kilograms of cocaine, which is 16,000 doses, and the street value for that would be $950,000, give or take a few thousand.
The number of drugs and the value of them is just staggering. Who were they selling it to and where did the people get all the money from? That would also be interesting to know because it's taking money out of the economy and funnelling it to some rather powerful drug traders.
Three people were arrested. Two in their 30s from Toronto and one, 25 years old, from Edmonton. Where did they get the money to buy all those drugs and how did they get them into the NWT? So many questions. Feb. 4 should be declared a historic day and turned into a major drug awareness day to be marked yearly.
Rather than spending money on drugs, that cash should go to solve some of our problems like homelessness, addictions and poverty. ItSA国际影视传媒檚 not that there is a shortage of money, it is just being spent on the wrong things. So, letSA国际影视传媒檚 mark the occasion because that drug raid illustrates the scale of the problem and the money that drug dealers and suppliers can make.
People like to blame the bootleggers and drug dealers for the problem. However, if no one was willing to buy the alcohol or drugs, then people would soon stop trying to sell it.
If you read a bit of the history of drugs and humans, it goes back a long, long way and wars have even been fought over it. In school, they should teach about alcohol wars when some countries tried prohibition. Then there were the opium wars. Today we seem to be going through fentanyl wars.
Trying to figure out what is or isnSA国际影视传媒檛 a drug can be darned confusing. We have drug stores that sell, among other things, drugs. Then we have food stores which also sell drugs or foods that are addictive. Can chocolate, sugar and carbohydrates be considered drugs? We have hardware stores that sell chemicals that can be considered drugs. Then thereSA国际影视传媒檚 the liquor stores and the pot shops. Some would argue that gas stations sell the drug that makes vehicles run.
According to the dictionary, a drug is a medicine or other substance that has a physiological effect when ingested, or otherwise introduced into the body. So maybe fresh air and clean water could be considered drugs.
One question we should try to answer or solve is why so many people in the country are willing to risk their lives by taking some of the street drugs that they know little about and which can kill the users. That is not healthy for people, physically or psychologically. So, itSA国际影视传媒檚 not just a war against drugs but a war against the conditions that encourage drug usage. Cutting off the supply of drugs is one problem but changing society, so people donSA国际影视传媒檛 want or need drugs, is another. It's something to consider because we need to address both problems to find a cure.
