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M'SIAN DRUG PROBLEM
Young female students sell sex for dope
September 08, 2009
STUDENTS as young as 13 are getting high on cannabis, Ecstasy and ketamine, not just outside schools, but under their teachers' very noses in class.
Even worse, the New Sunday Times found that female students, who don't have the money, have sex with the pushers for a free supply of drugs.
Students claim the drugs help them relax and recover from the stress of examinations.
A sizeable number of secondary school students, aged between 13 and 17, are very familiar with both plant-based drugs such as cannabis, and synthetic drugs such as erimin-5.
Students from several national and private schools in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Negri Sembilan admitted that they are drug users.
Many come from middle and upper class families and receive generous monthly allowances of RM250 ($102) to RM1,500.
Those who can't afford to buy the drugs are recruited as pushers by the traffickers. If they hit the 'sales target' - selling drugs to five students a week - they get drugs for free.
Female students can get the drugs free by having sex with pushers.
Kylie (not her real name) said she knows of female classmates who sleep with drug pushers so that they can be taken to popular entertainment outlets, and get drugs for free.
Jamil (not his real name), 17, failed his lower secondary exam because of his drug habit. He said: 'Even though I failed, I continued to smoke cannabis with my friends at a park near my house.'
Can't focus on studies
Jamil gets a monthly allowance of RM300 and pools his resources with friends to buy cannabis. He is sitting for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (Malaysian Certificate of Educationa) examinations this year, and has been drug-free for four months.
'I feel very restless though as I have been smoking regularly since I was 15,' he said. Jamil's classmates introduced him to drugs.
'I could not focus on my studies after starting on the habit.'
City Narcotics Department chief Assistant Commissioner Kang Chez Chiang said investigations revealed that some of the arrested pushers were selling drugs to students.
'Certain pushers are using students to sell drugs. Some students get RM10 and think they are doing their friends a favour.'
Many of the drug pushers are studying at institutions of higher learning or have just started working. Said Farahin (not her real name), 17: 'They recruit their juniors to act as runners or even be pushers.'
Selangor Narcotics Department chief Assistant Commissioner Nordin Kadir said 541 youngsters, aged between 14 and 18, were arrested in the first six months of the year for drug offences.
Of the figure, 460 were males and 81 females. During the same period last year, there were 229 arrests.
'Many students take drugs because of peer pressure. They want to fit in. There are also those who take drugs because they come from broken families,' Nordin said.
According to statistics from the National Anti-Drug Agency, there were 115 cases of 13 to 17-year-olds involved in drugs last year. The agency conducts its own raids, separate from the police.
M'SIAN DRUG PROBLEM
Young female students sell sex for dope
September 08, 2009
STUDENTS as young as 13 are getting high on cannabis, Ecstasy and ketamine, not just outside schools, but under their teachers' very noses in class.
Even worse, the New Sunday Times found that female students, who don't have the money, have sex with the pushers for a free supply of drugs.
Students claim the drugs help them relax and recover from the stress of examinations.
A sizeable number of secondary school students, aged between 13 and 17, are very familiar with both plant-based drugs such as cannabis, and synthetic drugs such as erimin-5.
Students from several national and private schools in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Negri Sembilan admitted that they are drug users.
Many come from middle and upper class families and receive generous monthly allowances of RM250 ($102) to RM1,500.
Those who can't afford to buy the drugs are recruited as pushers by the traffickers. If they hit the 'sales target' - selling drugs to five students a week - they get drugs for free.
Female students can get the drugs free by having sex with pushers.
Kylie (not her real name) said she knows of female classmates who sleep with drug pushers so that they can be taken to popular entertainment outlets, and get drugs for free.
Jamil (not his real name), 17, failed his lower secondary exam because of his drug habit. He said: 'Even though I failed, I continued to smoke cannabis with my friends at a park near my house.'
Can't focus on studies
Jamil gets a monthly allowance of RM300 and pools his resources with friends to buy cannabis. He is sitting for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (Malaysian Certificate of Educationa) examinations this year, and has been drug-free for four months.
'I feel very restless though as I have been smoking regularly since I was 15,' he said. Jamil's classmates introduced him to drugs.
'I could not focus on my studies after starting on the habit.'
City Narcotics Department chief Assistant Commissioner Kang Chez Chiang said investigations revealed that some of the arrested pushers were selling drugs to students.
'Certain pushers are using students to sell drugs. Some students get RM10 and think they are doing their friends a favour.'
Many of the drug pushers are studying at institutions of higher learning or have just started working. Said Farahin (not her real name), 17: 'They recruit their juniors to act as runners or even be pushers.'
Selangor Narcotics Department chief Assistant Commissioner Nordin Kadir said 541 youngsters, aged between 14 and 18, were arrested in the first six months of the year for drug offences.
Of the figure, 460 were males and 81 females. During the same period last year, there were 229 arrests.
'Many students take drugs because of peer pressure. They want to fit in. There are also those who take drugs because they come from broken families,' Nordin said.
According to statistics from the National Anti-Drug Agency, there were 115 cases of 13 to 17-year-olds involved in drugs last year. The agency conducts its own raids, separate from the police.
