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Drug selling teen charged in drug death
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by eastvanray | March 26, 2009 at 12:56 pm
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I have never heard of police taking this approach - charging people who sell illegal drugs that ultimately kill their users. I wonder if this approach could be expanded to include Tobacco companies?
Alta. teen arrested in connection with party drug deaths Canwest News ServiceMarch 26, 2009 12:02 PM About 70 residents from the Paul Band First Nation gather for a candlelight/prayer vigil in memory of the two girls who died after taking ecstasy on the weekend.
EDMONTON — RCMP have arrested an Alberta teenager in relation to the deaths of two teenage girls who overdosed and died after taking drugs they believed to be ecstasy.
Stony Plain RCMP said in a news release Thursday they have charged a 16-year-old male from the Paul Band First Nation with nine offences, including criminal negligence causing death and drug trafficking.
Trinity Bird, 15 and Leah House, 14, fell ill after taking drugs at a weekend party. Bird died Tuesday night at the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton after slipping into a coma.
Nine girls took pills they thought were ecstasy on Saturday just before a round dance at the Paul Band First Nation, about 80 kilometres west of Edmonton. Several hours later, three of them fell ill.
RCMP said traces of ecstasy were found in their blood, but no trace of any poison was found.
The 16-year-old is charged with two counts of criminal negligence causing death, two counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm, failure to comply with police and four counts of trafficking in a controlled substance.
The youth, who cannot be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, has been released with conditions to appear in Stony Plain Provincial Court on May 1.
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at 19:26 on March 26th, 2009
Agreed Roy. And I would add that drug policy (in the US and Canada) is also a product of racism as the drugs of choice of the caucasians is legal but when non-whites wanted to use their drugs of choice they were swiftly made illegal (pot and opium in particular).
at 02:51 on March 27th, 2009
yeah and how about fast food @ tabacco
at 15:27 on March 26th, 2009
This really is a double edged sword.Firstly if the 16yr old boy did not supply them,they would have simply got them from another source.Young teens experiment in all things they believe to be adult and cool. Drugs among teens is rife all over the world. Some kids will experiment some wont. Their are drug casualties all around us.You see the young pale faces sitting at the train station or on the street with little white plastic coffee cups begging for money to get their next fix. The upper echelon of our society are clueless to what is happening to our teens.All they do is look at statistics and money.Over lunch sweetie over lunch at the Ritz.
at 15:34 on March 26th, 2009
It has been used to sue the tobacco companies, but when a legal product causes a death, it is different than when an illegal product causes death.
at 15:43 on March 26th, 2009
Kinda backwards. You would think that people selling legal products would be held to higher health standards. People buying illegal drugs cannot expect that the product they are buying is of a known quality or purity and so I would think are taking more risk.
at 18:33 on March 26th, 2009
Well, no, because the legal product is sold because it is considered safer and that normally, there wouldn't be a problem. You are criminally negligent only when you fail to follow current practices.
Idiosyncratic drug reactions cannot be foreseen beyond a certain point.
The drug dealer sells a drug which is not considered safe to use at all.
at 19:12 on March 26th, 2009
I am not sure I agree, Roy. Most of the drugs sold in the illegal market are safe to use. In most cases safer than tobacco or alcohol in terms of overall cost to society (lost productivity, health care, criminal justice, broken families etc.).
at 19:21 on March 26th, 2009
I said "considered". I didn't say that they were safer. I said they "considered" to be safer. That is the logic. Which drugs are legal has more to do with tradition than with science. Legality comes in afterward. Not before.
at 02:53 on March 27th, 2009
yeah then it becomes a systemic out in the open and socially sanctioned killer!
at 05:21 on May 18th, 2009
yes i tink your right....... only it should really not matter how old the teens are