In my research, unfortunately what I also found was that there are additional victims in the whole drug trade, specifically in the manufacturing of crystal meth. So often we found that young children were living in the residences where the crystal meth was being produced. I'm pleased that this bill actually has the welfare of children included as an aggregating factor. In fact, if a young person is somehow inflicted with some type of injury or has some type of ramification as the process unfolds, that is taken into consideration as well. So these children may not be purchasing, they may not be directly involved in the drug trafficking; simply by being in the location where the meth is being produced they are victims of it, because of course there are all kinds of poisonous gases and different things that go out during the production. I know the victims are not only the drug abusers and the drug users; there are peripheral victims as well.
On May 11th, 2009. See this statement in context.