Pubdate: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) Copyright: 2001 The Sydney Morning Herald Contact: GPO Box 3771, Sydney NSW 2001 Fax: 61-(0)2-9282 3492 Website: http://www.smh.com.au/ Forum: http://forums.fairfax.com.au/ Author: Harvey J. Marrable DRUG LAWS FAILING Guilt, not by association but by proximity? Reversal of the burden of proof ? Draconian police powers? NSW is becoming a police state. Our freedoms are increasingly eroded. And they know that the inevitable outcome of these measures will be increased profits for the international drug trade and further overcrowding of our disgusting jails with hapless, uneducated, inarticulate young men whose criminal propensities will then be refined. Why? Harvey J. Marrable, Wamberal, March 28 - --- MAP posted-by: Josh Sutcliffe