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 )
Drug Tests Proposed to Reduce Ecstasy Danger
Drug expert Professor David Nutt and the Daily Telegraph called for ecstasy testing to be introduced in the UK after two more young clubbers died after taking pills at raves at London’s Alexander Palace (on consecutive nights.
Telegraph columnist Andrew M Brown pointed out that many middle-aged adults took ecstasy in their youth, confessing ‘we’ve lived through it, we’ve had children, many of us, and now we want those children to be safe from needless harm’.
“I know it would be best if young people took no illegal drugs, but we should surely deal with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be,” he suggested. “That way, we might avoid at least some of the tragedies.” (Telegraph; http://tgr.ph/vMCOcU )
Ecstasy expert Professor David Nutt questioned police suggestions that both deaths were caused by a ‘rogue batch’ or ecstasy and called for a knowledge-based approach based on pill testing to reduce future tragedies.
“We need to abandon the current government approach that relies on fear of harms underpinned by ignorance of what drugs users are taking as the prime approach,” the Professor urged.
“This has failed, and will continue to do so, for young people are relatively uninterested in possible threats to health. It may even make things worse as often young drugs users are fearful of seeking medical help for themselves or their friends because of the real threat of police prosecution,” he noted. (Guardian; http://bit.ly/v5qeM0 )
Drugs expert Danny Kushlick from Transform reflected that the chances of serving British politicians even considering such measures are virtually zero however, in an interview with Irish website thejournal.ie in which he noted that ‘‘alternative views cannot be tolerated’.
“It is instructive to look at the drug policy trajectory of two world leaders – Barack Obama and David Cameron. Both are former users of illegal drugs and both held reform positions before they reached high office,” the drugs charity’s head of External Affairs noted, “Once in high office their views apparently shifted to more hawkish, populist positions.” (Transform: http://bit.ly/vzZKao )
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Drug Tests Proposed to Reduce Ecstasy Danger
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Drug expert Professor David Nutt and the Daily Telegraph called for ecstasy testing to be introduced in the UK after two more young clubbers died after taking pills at raves at London’s Alexander Palace (on consecutive nights.
Telegraph columnist Andrew M Brown pointed out that many middle-aged adults took ecstasy in their youth, confessing ‘we’ve lived through it, we’ve had children, many of us, and now we want those children to be safe from needless harm’.
“I know it would be best if young people took no illegal drugs, but we should surely deal with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be,” he suggested. “That way, we might avoid at least some of the tragedies.” (Telegraph; http://tgr.ph/vMCOcU )
