Sadly these drug problems seem to follow a pattern of the areas mentioned. They are all rural or run down small towns, that hold no entertainment for the younger audience.

Morrinsville is a nice town, but there's always youth trouble there as there's nothing to do (usually on the showgrounds eh Zemanova?!). Huntly is about 20kms from us here and is very much a mining town with most of the local jobs based in the 2 mines there. Again, not much to do and that town is obviously affected with a lot of 'tagging' (spray painted signatures/gang names etc).

Whats sad is that this kind of thing, usually drug related (and usually 'P') is on the increase. What is good though is that the other 90% of the population and the government are annoyed about it and want something done about it - which seems to also be happening. You can only hope that NZ gets on top of it's difficulties before it goes the way of so many other countries with the close the door and forget about it attitude. Drug busts are increasing in size and quantity all the time as there is a huge sting on it going on at the moment. Lets just hope it has an effect.

Luckily, there still is hope.