The price of drugs coupled with the frequent usage of narcotics in Australia has put the country at the forefront of illegal drug dealings around the globe.
Experts have warned that Australia has become an ideal market for smugglers and dealers to sell drugs.
Talking to Melbourne’s 3AW, Dr John Coyne a key figure in Border Security’s Australian Strategic Policy Institute program said Asia’s expanding pharmaceutical trade and Australia’s demand for drugs has put the country at the top of the world’s drug trade, creating headaches for authorities’ fight against importation.
“In order to smuggle drugs somewhere, you have to have a legitimate trade flow. And it has to be large enough to hide your illegal commodity in,” he told Neil Mitchell.
“We also have a situation where we have expanding trade with China, in which those who want to smuggle this sort of stuff in our country ….can hide it in amongst a whole heap of legitimate trade flows.”
In other alarming findings the ABC has suggested that just under one-in-four year 11 students have experimented with narcotics, which are more prominent among males and teens in rural areas.
Source: ABC, 3AW
