“There are unanswered calls, missed whānau events, eyes that aren’t quite present anymore, and excuses that no longer make sense but are accepted because the alternative is too hard to face.” — Kingi Snelgar on the insidious creep of meth addiction.
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The Jevon McSkimming affair “is yet another distraction, a smokescreen, from some truly worrying developments at the other end of the criminal justice sector”. — Denis O’Reilly on the soaring prison muster (and its soaring costs), and the meth crisis.
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“Not one atom, not one molecule of methamphetamine is indigenous to Aotearoa. It is a lethal invader, colonising the mind of the user as surely as foreign systems and patterns of thinking colonise our society.” — Denis O’Reilly.
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“We demonise these guys, right? And then we’ve got reason to hate them. But when they try to do something for themselves, we’re going to bash them again anyway. They can’t win.” — Harry Tam.
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