Beijing demands drug users register with police

[sydneyguy]

Just be glad that your a aussie stoner so that you wont have to be 're-educated'(think George Orwells novel/film 1984) ...

 

 

 

Beijing demands drug users register with police

(Agencies)

Updated: 2005-05-12 14:36

 

The Beijing Public Security Bureau has issued a notice requiring all users of illegal drugs to register with police over the next month or be forced to quit their habits with the threat of time in labor-reeducation camp, Beijing media reported Thursday.

 

 

Drug abuse is one of the leading causes of AIDS in China. Guangdong Province plans to offer drug addicts cheap and moderate methadone taken only under health workers' supervision.

 

As part of an action called the "Comprehensive Survey and Registration of Drug Users," the bureau wants all users to register on their own by June 10, according to the Beijing News.

 

The Municipal Drug Control Commission announced the registration drive at a teleconference Wednesday.

 

Those who register will be assigned a target date to quit drugs and receive help from the police and their local neighborhood committees, the paper says.

 

It adds that those who do not register on time will be "forced" to quit over three to six months and anyone who relapses will receive a labor-reeducation camp sentence.

 

About 26,000 people are using drugs in Beijing, a city of about 13 million, the Beijing News reported.

 

Of those, 4,000 are over age 35, but the vast majority are said to be teenagers. The drug-using population of Beijing and elsewhere in northern China is smaller than southern areas such as Yunnan Province and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where opiates come straight from the Golden Triangle.

 

"The aim is to ascertain the whole city's drug-use situation," the newspaper said. "The goal is to use the strengthening of management, help and education for drug users."

 

A Western diplomat who specializes in healthcare said the registration drive is probably geared toward out-of-town heroin and opium users.

 

If the police are sincere, he said, they may put heroin users on methadone, which costs 5 to 10 yuan ($1.20) a day instead of 200 yuan a day for heroin.

 

Marijuana and ecstasy are also common in Beijing.

 

Wealthy artists, musicians and actors use marijuana to inspire their work and people from the far western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are said to use and sell hashish in Beijing.

 

But because there is no known precedent for mandatory drug-user registration, the diplomat said, it is hard to predict an outcome.

 

"This is an unknown question," he said. "I can only take a wait-and-see position."

 

Beijing AIDS activist Hu Jia, who knows intravenous drug users, said police only use "force" to make people quit drugs and those users usually restart their habits. Special police facilities for drug users are effective mainly because they cut off supply, Hu said.

 

He does not expect to see a needle exchange for heroin users or any other voluntary program.

 

"All the service the government has given to drug users and all the appeals, none of it has come to any result," he added.

[WantDaChronic]

hmmmm i wonder how many smack junkies are gonna be willing to sign up to a government program well they might actually, the government wants to give them drugs for 1/20 of the price of their normal habbit so its basically like the governmnet is becoming their dealer and in the process saying they are reducing the number of people addicted to drugs

 

if a nation was truely interested in stopping herion dead in its tracks, all they have to do is invest just 1 years worth of drug enforcement money into buying and then burning every opium field in the world....there wouldnt be any of this rehab shit, they would just say suck shit junkies, we burnt your fields and when your dealer's supply runs out this time, its for good!

[mull]

hmmmm i wonder how many smack junkies are gonna be willing to sign up to a government program    well they might actually, the government wants to give them drugs for 1/20 of the price of their normal habbit so its basically like the governmnet is becoming their dealer and in the process saying they are reducing the number of people addicted to drugs   

 

if a nation was truely interested in stopping herion dead in its tracks, all they have to do is invest just 1 years worth of drug enforcement money into buying and then burning every opium field in the world....there wouldnt be any of this rehab shit, they would just say suck shit junkies, we burnt your fields and when your dealer's supply runs out this time, its for good!

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Sounds like a privacy invasion, but that's what we all face, breaking any law, in any country, no matter how BS the law is, or how addicted you are to whatever.

 

They couldn't just burn all the fields though WDC, they do have to make a tiny bit of codine too

 

It's just another way of databasing people. :thumbdown

[WantDaChronic]

They couldn't just burn all the fields though WDC, they do have to make a tiny bit of codine too

 

thats why they should give cuttings to pharmacutical companies and allow them to supply the drugs derived from opiates before pouring petrol over the fields...although if that were the case, morphine, codine, etc would skyrocket in prices and only the mega rish would be able to afford decent pain treatment :thumbdown

[Chato]

Nice example of Chinese propaganda at work again....

 

There has been only 2 forms of punishment for drugs in China for quite awhile, forced rehab detention or death. The Chinese have had a long history of drug abuse problems with the Opium Wars leaving an indelible mark on Chinese pysche that still exists to this day.

 

Opium is quite difficult to find in Beijing and the local smack community is very very insular. You can find all sorts of drugs in Beijing (not much bud) and see people, usually foreigners, off there heads in and around the bar areas but i'm yet to see a "noticeable" junkie kickin around beijing.

 

It's pretty full on around the 26th of June, National Drug Day in China. Most users go underground and pretty much all dealers shut up shop. The crackdown in this period is pretty full-on, all for show though, and if your caught during this time your fucked big time. They execute a ridiculous amount of people at this time as "examples" and Amnesty International estimates that there are 10,000 executions annually in China, more than the rest of the world combined.

 

http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/14...akillings.shtml

http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread6186.shtml

 

peace

c

[Frazz]

the chinese just want to clean up Beijing before the Olympics,

those foolish enough to sign-up will simply never be heard of again :thumbdown

[WantDaChronic]

the chinese just want to clean up Beijing before the Olympics,

those foolish enough to sign-up will simply never be heard of again  :thumbdown

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sounds possible to me

[Chato]

Very good point frazzle it's certainly a major issue in this recent effort.

 

Probably not a factor in this case but they also have certain obligations that need to be met before they receive full membership to the WTO and of course they're also pushing for a seat on the UN Security Council. Many of the recent strategys and resulting programs put in place are heavily influenced by the desire to be part of these orginizatons although for the most part they are totally in-effective and the media censorship and total denial of public debate are further evidence of this.

 

peace

c

[sydneyguy]

Probably not a factor in this case but they also have certain obligations that need to be met before they receive full membership to the WTO and of course they're also pushing for a seat on the UN Security Council.

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Permanent members

The Council has five permanent members:

 

People's Republic of China

French Republic

Russian Federation

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

United States of America

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Security_Council

 

The permanent members were originally drawn from the victorious powers after World War II: the Republic of China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 1971, the People's Republic of China was awarded the Republic of China's seat in the UN by UN General Assembly Resolution 2758. In 1991, the Russian Federation acquired the seat originally held by the Soviet Union, including the Soviet Union's former representation in the Security Council.

 

Currently the five members are the only nations permitted to possess nuclear weapons under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which lacks universal validity, as not all nuclear nations have signed the treaty. This nuclear status is not the result of their Security Council membership, though it is sometimes used as a modern-day justification for their continued presence on the body. North Korea, Pakistan, India, Israel (Israel has never admitted to nuclear weapons possession), and some other countries that are not permanent members of the UN Security Council do possess nuclear weapons outside of the anti-proliferation framework established by the Treaty.

 

Each permanent member state has veto powers, which can be used to void any resolution. A single blocking veto outweighs any majority.