I read this report on the UK drug problem earlier on the BBC News website

 

 

"Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: "We want to see fewer people start using drugs and for our society to be free from the problems caused by drugs."

 

"We want those who do use drugs to enter and finish treatment and move on to lead healthy, drug-free lives. "

 

"We want communities to be free of drug-related crime and we want see tough enforcement of the law."

 

full story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7266109.stm

 

 

The Home Secretary went on to say that she also wanted to see Pixies parading down Oxford St handing out free fairy cakes to shoppers and squads of Elves with machine guns patrolling Heathrow and the rooftops of the Houses of Parliament.

 

 

.....OK, she didn't say the last bit but what she did say was equally rediculous.

 

The UK has ALWAYS had social problems from alcohol and drug use...

 

...In the 18th century it was gin, in the Victorian and Edwardian eras it was opium and morphine.....I have also read somewhere that both Queen Victoria and the Queen Mother were cannabis users.

 

There is NO WAY ON EARTH that our society will be drug free! ...FFS they can't even keep HM Prisons drink and drug free.

 

Victorian society was off it's tits on opium when they built the British Empire....most, if not all, of the greatest writers, poets and artists of  the 19th century were addicted to something!

 

It really doesn't suprise me that the century that saw most drugs criminalised also saw the decay of the Empire and the descent of architecture into "monsterous carbunkle" land.

 

Alcohol is the ONLY socially acceptable drug left, and it won't be long before even that's banned as well.

 

When will they realise that banning something only makes it more appealing? (Frankie Say's...remember?)

 

These "problems" will happen regardless of societies wealth and job prospects. Even when the UK has had 100% employment, people still got pissed on the weekends and, those who were inclined to do so, still got high.....even societies that are still in the stone age use some kind of drug whether it's alcohol, leaf derived or even, in some South American tribes, coke on a stick.

 

 

 

There are three absolutes in life

 

1. Every person born will eventually die

2. While men are prepared to pay for sex, women will charge for it in some form or other.

3. People WILL get high or drunk.

 

These things will ALWAYS happen and NOTHING will change that. Even if the payment is a wedding ring or the high is from worshipping an hallucination in a church.

The last part