A recent survey suggests that Australians consumed four tonnes of cocaine in 2022-23, raising concerns about drug abuse in the country. The Australian Crime Intelligence Commission conducted the survey and expressed astonishment at the high figure. The article also references a quote from James Baldwin about the complexities of human existence.
“Every human being is an unprecedented miracle. One tries to treat them as the miracles they are, while trying to protect oneself against the disasters they’ve become.” This sublime paragraph came from the American writer James Baldwin , who would have turned 100 this year. It came to mind with the this week suggesting Australia ns consumed four tonnes of cocaine in 2022-23. What miracles. What disasters.Four tonnes.
Holy smoke! Two tonnes of it in the “premier state” alone! One tonne found in the waste water beneath the Beach Hotel in Bondi! (OK, I made that last bit up.) How much coke can one country put up its nose? Four tonnes sounds a lot. “That’s an amazing quantity, a very, very high figure,” said Shane Neilson of the Australian Crime Intelligence Commission, which conducted the survey. It’s dirty work, but somebody has to justify the Australian Federal Police’s existenc
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