The Picture Above shows the end result of heroin use. Despite the increasing number of people dying from addiction Heroin is freely available in Kirkby and is becoming more popular with the ever increasing Junkie Population. Kirkby has a massive problem with drugs. This article calls for legalisation, it could be the only answer

Kirkby has a terrible problem with drug related crime in the local community, there are literally hundreds of Junkies in our small Town, each one of them busy robbing to feed the habit and causing misery to those who are robbed. The situation is out of control. The Police lost the war on drugs here a long time ago, probably in the 80's when Heroin became widespread and conventional criminals began to focus on the easy money.

Not long after Liverpool's famous riots in 1981(there was a small riot here as well) there was a noticeable increase in the availability of heroin. It soon spread like wild fire. As many began to experiment in using the drug-it only took one 'toot' (a smoke of heroin-chasing the dragon) for a lot of people to get a taste for it, and soon enough they NEEDED it rather than just used it as a recreational drug.

In the 80's Kirkby had a flourishing 'drug scene'. Most of it was based around cannabis and alcohol, with L.S.D and speed also being used. Needless to say a lot of this went on in various pubs, some pubs like The Mainbrace in Kirkby were a bit like the Dutch Cannabis Coffee shops!. There was a good atmosphere in these pubs and a lot of the drug use was simply recreational rather than feeding a habit. Heroin was rare at first, the market was very much 'underground' and the average pot smoker would not come into contact with a dealer, there were that few of them then.

Bit by bit, heroin began to become sold more openly. By 1984 the heroin scene had exploded into one which every small time 'Kray' saw as an opportunity to invest in. Kirkby has a tradition of lawlessness and the heroin drug trade appealed to the more unscrupulous villains. It was simply a matter of raising a few thousand pounds and, with a bit of muscle, you were guaranteed a local' franchise' which guaranteed massive tax-free profits. The money soon flooded in and traditional Merseyside based criminals were behind massive deals to import heroin on a larger and larger scale.

Kirkby was hit like a sledgehammer by the ensuing crime wave. Junkies are great workers; they have a driving need which spurs them on to do so. The need for the fix over-rides any moral considerations and most of them, though not all, would rob their own mothers. Almost every family of a heroin addict will have come to a point where they have to ban their own sons or daughters from the house because of theft. Thousands of these incidents go on in Kirkby every year and most of it not reported to the police. A lot of working class families will try their damndest to help a son or daughter who falls victim to addiction and in Kirkby there have been a few success stories where families pull together to give the support to the addicts.

In the 90's the drug scene was too find another outlet in the selling of Ecstasy tablets. The first 'E's' were about £25 and the drug had been around in the U.S.A as part of the underground gay scene before reaching these shores. The 'rave scene' became a way for many gangsters to legitimise their activities and it was always traditional for any big gangsters to own nightclubs. It was an easy step to own the rave clubs and deal the ecstasy to the punters. With the clubs came jobs for 'bouncers' and the beginning of the multitude of security firms, which we now have today in Kirkby and Merseyside as a whole. If you never owned the club or pub you only had to get the security contract to be able to 'box off' the drug dealing. The money rolled in such big amounts that many of the small time pushers of the 80's needed to invest in a multitude of businesses to be able to launder money they had no way of proving they had earned legitimately. Even if the business run at a loss it was easy to top it up and falsify accounts to give the owners a way of appearing to be legit.

It is also worrying that the police seem to have a policy of paying drug dealers to inform on other drug dealers. There have been cases on Merseyside of the police passing on documents to major dealers and its obvious that the money which the drug dealers had access to would have been channeled into the pockets of some corrupt policemen and women.

The drugs trade in Kirkby in the year 2002 is most definitely out of the control of the Police and Government. There are a hundreds of addicts who are addicted to heroin , and probably a good few thousand casual users of cocaine, which has become more commonplace than speed was in the 80's. Cocaine is big money, a gram of the drug costs £40 and it is very very unlikely that the cocaine purchased is pure. Dealers add various substances to put the weight up, and among the substances popular is the stuff used for teething problems with babies. This is particularly worrying for users who may inject cocaine, heroin or other drugs, which are mixed with dangerous additives. The utter disregard the dealers have for users of these drugs is simply another case for legalisation.

Kirkby has also got the usual Drug rehabilitation schemes such as free needles and condoms for the users. There is no doubt that a lot of the addicts are on disability benefits and the heroin using population of Kirkby and Liverpool as a whole are a drain on the resources of the local community and the NHS. It would be far simpler to set up a clinic to administer the drugs to the hundreds of addicts here, and such a scheme would enable the addicts to perhaps make something decent of their lives. They are Human beings but nevertheless it must be made clear to them that robbing the local community is something for which they should be punished. If the addicts were given the drugs in a clean safe form it is likely that many would immediately cease to be a menace to the local community. The local drug dealers will disagree and maybe those who profit by building prisons but if we do not legalize drugs then we will see a continuation of the problems outlined and Kirkby's drug trade will continue to leave a trail of misery, death and hopelessness in the community.

THE WAR ON DRUGS IS OVER. THERES TOO MANY PEOPLE TAKING DRUGS, THERE ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE. THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A JOKE GONE TOO FAR. LETS STOP KIDDING OURSELVES AND JUST LEGALISE THE BLOODY LOT.

Since the Taliban were pushed out of Power, there is to be a new flood of Heroin smuggled to the UK. Thanks to the CIA for that. Its easy to rule a nation when you turn the young into drug addicts.

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