You just tipped the Iceberg, thanks for alerting us to the bigger problems in your town
CHILDREN AS YOUNG as 12 are being threatened by drug dealers over debts they have built up because of their cannabis use.
Sadie Grace, CEO of the National Family Support Network (NFSN), said drug-related intimidation has always been a problem but the people affected by it are getting younger.
“The threats were always violent, always . The amounts of money are probably very similar. But the age of people being intimidated has changed, we are hearing more about very young people accruing debts for weed, which is not something we were seeing before,” she told TheJournal.ie.
“And they would be well into their drug use or their drug dealing before their parents know about the debt. When they can’t contain it anymore, that’s when their parents would know.”
Drug users and families can be subjected to physical violence, damage to their homes, sexual violence or threats of violence as well a s verbal threats. In 70% of cases where a family member is the target of a threat, it is the drug user’s mother, according to research by the NFSN.
. . . It’s the children who are getting involved in minding the drugs and shifting them and hiding them and dealing them.” . . . .
. . . . .“And of they don’t pay soon there is interest on top.” . . . .
Dealers make violent threats against 12-year-olds over cannabis debt
Parents of addicts have remortgaged their homes in some cases to pay off drug debts.
www.thejournal.ie
See, it's more of a National Irish problem & responsibility.
If it were Muslims they'd be sussed and busted in no time, yes?
I'm afraid to say it's regular dealers and pushers in your neighbourhood who are responsible.
