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2009-02-10 |
CHICO-NAZARIO, J. |
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| Drug-pushing, as a crime, has been condemned as "an especially vicious crime,"[46] which is "one of the most pernicious evils that has ever crept into our society."[47] We find that: Indeed nothing is more depraved than for anyone to be a merchant of death by selling prohibited drugs, an act which, as this Court said in one case, "often breeds other crimes. It is not what we might call a `contained' crime whose consequences are limited to that crime alone, like swindling and bigamy. Court and police records show that a significant number of murders, rapes, and similar offenses have been committed by persons under the influence of dangerous drugs, or while they are `high.' While spreading such drugs, the drug-pusher is also abetting, through his greed and irresponsibility, the commission of other crimes."[48] | |||||
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2008-10-17 |
CHICO-NAZARIO, J. |
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| This Court observed in many cases that drug pushers sell their prohibited articles to any prospective customer, be he a stranger or not, in private as well as in public places, even in the daytime.[32] Indeed, drug pushers have become increasingly daring, dangerous and, worse, openly defiant of the law.[33] Hence, what matters is not the time and venue of the sale, but the fact of agreement and the acts constituting sale and delivery of the prohibited drugs. | |||||