Cocaine Cop’s Key Clues
Cocaine using clubbers are typically 18-45 year old white male owners who own their own homes, police drug test expert PC Adrian Parsons told a Home Office enquiry on Britain’s cocaine culture, last week.
The Kent police drugs expert scans clubbers’ hands outside clubs and pubs and said he can usually spot users long before he tests them based on their belligerence and ‘extreme paranoia’ (‘especially if you try to look up their nose’).
“They are louder than normal people. They are non-stop talkers. They are arrogant and feel invincible,” PC Parsons continued, “They are happy to ridicule bystanders who are not part of their group, particularly police officers.” (Guardian; http://bit.ly/uhiF1x )
Bankers Get out of Jail Free Coke Card
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High-flying financiers in London are spending their bonuses in cocaine bars where ‘it is as easy to order a gram of cocaine as it is a mozzarella panini – all claimable on company expenses’, the Standard reported this week.
The paper chatted to bankers who boasted of blowing tens of thousands of pounds on cocaine, consumer goods and prostitutes and said they did so with implicit impunity from unusually tolerant local cops.
“To be frank, we have to concentrate resources on the crimes that most affect society. Traders and bankers taking cocaine does not affect others’ lives as much as violent crime, burglary and fraud, “ a senior City of London police source told the Standard.
“They are wealthy people who can afford drugs and don’t need to rob to fund their addiction. The only real problems are personal,” he added. (Standard: http://bit.ly/uapxOQ )
Moms Mobilise Against the War on Drugs
Concerned mothers in America have launched a campaign group Moms United to End the War on Drugs dedicated to fighting the war on drugs.
Speaking about the fast-growing organisation this week, Moms United founder Gretchen Burns Bergman said she was inspired by the example of mothers who helped overturn alcohol Prohibition last century.
“Mothers were instrumental in ending alcohol prohibition in the United States in the 30’s, not because they were in favor of alcohol, but because they wanted to end the gangland violence and loss of lives caused by organized crime, fueled by prohibition,” she told Alternet.org.
“Mothers, again, are leading the charge, for the sake of our children, and future generations to come, just as women did many decades ago to end alcohol prohibition. We are fed up and raising our voices in favor of control, regulation and legalization of marijuana. We’ve seen too many families that have been ravaged by both addiction and the criminal justice system,” she added.
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