IN response to a letter from J Holdenson, The Border Mail (April 3).

I am pleased to read that you do have the general public's interest at heart when you acknowledge and inform us of the dangers involved with the accidental pricking of needles discarded (blatantly) by a minority of our drug illness sufferers.

Furthermore, you state "Anybody found with X amount of hard drugs in their possession and/or dealing in drugs, be given a mandatory death sentence".

It is this line of thought that needs further analysis.

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