{"id":104357,"date":"2020-07-09T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T22:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104357"},"modified":"2020-07-09T15:47:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T22:47:28","slug":"narcotics-joke-joke-is-on-the-people-let-the-people-see-the-narcotics-destroyed-follow-the-money-to-see-who-is-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/09\/narcotics-joke-joke-is-on-the-people-let-the-people-see-the-narcotics-destroyed-follow-the-money-to-see-who-is-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Narcotics Joke \u2013 Joke is on the people!-Let the people see the narcotics destroyed \u2013 Follow the money to see who is involved!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ratanapala<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

9 Jul 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apprehending large hauls of narcotics in vogue now! Though this is nothing new the pace has accelerated since the election of President Gotabhaya. This has been happening over the years now more often than ever in the history of narcotics in Sri Lanka. Throughout what has been a mystery to the public is what happens to the apprehended narcotics? Although occasionally we have seen hauls of marijuana or ganja being burnt we have not seen what happens to the stuff like \u2013 heroin, ice, and other methamphetamines \u2013 how the stuff is destroyed \u2013 if at all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest news is about a haul of heroin amounting to 247 kg apprehended mid-seas. It turns out that the haul has been handed over to a few low-ranking police officers for safe custody and storage pending production as exhibits at court hearings. What has happened to this narcotics haul is now the latest news. The part has been passed over to heroin dealers and the rest reconstituted with the addition of the food additive Ajino Moto (MSG) so that alike weight can be spirited away for later distribution through drug networks concealed in rice bags!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heroin gets sold in milligrams. Thus 247 kg is 247 million grams with a street value running perhaps into billions of Rupees. Carrying a few grams is sufficient for a person to be put behind bars for many years in many countries including Sri Lanka, I believe. In this scenario is difficult to comprehend why such a highly-priced as well as a highly dangerous haul of drugs have been handed over to a few low-ranking police officers for safe custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story gets even more juicier. The latest investigations reveal that this has been the practice during the last so many years to recycle the apprehended narcotics back to the streets by the very same officers in charge with the \u2018understanding\u2019 of their superior officers \u2013 under the very snotty nose of the law! So far it has escaped the eyes of the law how those narcotics officers including who knows colluding politicians connected with drug rings are getting super-rich. Some of the palatial residences they occupy their lifestyles as well as their investments show the extent of the money spread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly the aspect that is not easily understood is the reason why these \u2018so-called court exhibits\u2019 need to be held in totality. One would imagine in this day and age with the available technology it is possible to suitably record, photograph such materials, and only statistically representative samples kept for court exhibits. The rest of the drugs that are more dangerous out in the street almost as fissionable radioactive materials should be destroyed in a fully transparent manner that will leave no legal stone unturned for its thoroughness or veracity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE NEW GOVERNMENT IS ON THE RIGHT PATH. LET US BRING A NEW PARLIAMENT\nTHAT WILL SUIT THE ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT GOTABHAYA – A ONE WITH AN\nOVERWHELMING OVER 2\/3 MAJORITY FOR THE POHOTTUWA! IT IS TIME THE AUGEAN STABLES\nARE CLEANED UP!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ratanapala 9 Jul 2020 Apprehending large hauls of narcotics in vogue now! Though this is nothing new the pace has accelerated since the election of President Gotabhaya. This has been happening over the years now more often than ever in the history of narcotics in Sri Lanka. Throughout what has been a mystery to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ratanapala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}