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“Class A drug users should be forced into residential drug programmes and removed from society until they clean up their act. If they fall back into their old habits when they return to the general community then we should have a three strikes and you’re out rule, culminating in very long sentences.” – The Sun, Tuesday 28 February 2006
By underblog March 1, 2006 - 1:17 pm
Hmm, just thought I’d post this interesting quote:”Editors respect each other’s privacy. If they didn’t, we might learn more, in one case, of a cocaine habit and, in another, of affairs with young reporters.” – Peter Wilby in the New Statesman, 14 November 2005
By Manic March 1, 2006 - 2:04 pm
Apropos of nothing, of course.;o)Two things to wonder:Does one night in the cells count as one strike?Was someone’s DNA sample quietly disposed of along with any thought of charges?
By Manic March 2, 2006 - 8:35 am
In Good Company:http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article348704.ece“As the UN reveals that British levels of cocaine abuse match those of the United States, Paul Vallely traces the lineage of the drug back to the Incas – and finds some surprising users down the years”