Peru taking strong stance on drugs

The plight of Michaela McCollum and Melissa Reid in Peru should be a very serious lesson to everybody that any involvement in drugs could have far-reaching consequences.

It is ironic that a substances as white as snow has plunged them into a world of great darkness, which is aptly named ‘the Devil’s dandruff’.

If the two women are found guilty and given a fair trial, then there is no reason why a heavy jail sentence should not be applied, albeit it in a prison where hygiene is adequate. We have many people in this country being murdered or sentenced every year because of their involvement in drugs, either users who commit crime to feed their habit, as middle men, or logistic operators when they are caught.