A few things to consider.
1. are no "harmless drugs" and this includes all legal and illegal drugs. It's just as possible to become addicted to legal ones, as illegal.
2.Heroin the drug that the Bali 9 were trafficking is not a "bad" drug. If you live in the UK, and some other countries and have surgery in hospital you are quite likley to be prescribed diamorphone for pain. Diamorphine aka heroin. Interestingly, of those that having been prescribed this post op (eg, broken hip or knee replacement) few go on to become drug addicts. No more than those rescribed other opiate based drigs. Apomorphine is actually a remarkable and effective pain reliever for ACUTE pain.
3. In Indonesia it is possible to buy codeine, without script from a pharmacy. Which, if you have minimal skills you can crush, refine and inject. the body doesn;t know the difference between codeine and morphine and heroin. Once it has been through the liver it's all the same.
4. Caffiene, in excess has been known to cause fatal arrhythmias. There are planty of documented cases.
5. Alcohol, surely don't have to go on about the harms of this legal drug.
6. , causes premature death of more than 50% of users. Interestingly, in Indonesia, more than 60% of men smoke. There are no laws like in Australia to protect others, so passive smoking rates are high. Extrapolating that out to the population as a whole tobacco would kill far more indonesians than all illicit drugs combined.
In my opinion....
This whole current death penanalty thing has nothing to do with worry about how a few international drug runners would effect the indonesian population. It is not about wrong or right. It is ALL about the image of new president, sending a message to the world and to Australia in particular that he means business, AND .... above all it may now be about saving FACE. There is absolutely no way the president can back down now from his hard line position without losing face. Politically, within his own country it would lose him so much credibility. If there was a way of saving face and letting them live, I feel it it would have happended already.
As well as Myaran and Andrew, also on the list for execution is a South Americal man who is ill with Schizophrenia and has not been receiving treatment. That in itself imust be a violation of human rights - that they would execute a mentally ill man.
We need to as a population to STOP going to Bali. This would send the strongest message possible. But would our nation of bogans give up their "island paradise" to send a powerful message to a president who appears to have lost his human compassion and dignity?