Usually I don't get on my high horse about stuff but when i heard the stat years ago about 1 person dying in South America for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK then it affected my thinking about it, and its idiots like Livermore with too much money and too few braincells who perpetuate something like this.
.............meanwhile back on topic. There are instances of bad boys turned good, The prime example is probably Tony Adams whose alcoholism got him a prison term. Luckily he had Arsene Wenger to help him get back on track. Adams came through it all stronger than ever and paid Arsenal back handsomely. Jake could do no worse than look to Adams as a role model.
Maybe we could use this to our Marketing advantage and cal ourselves Hull White Tigers.... Although the name is a bit too long for AA
How many times have you been brought down with a bump recently? Play your games, foist your self-centered intelligence on the board, but most of all, derail a reasonable conversation about a real problem.
That is a depressing stat but it is mainly down to illegalisation. Humans have spent thousands of years of evolution wanting to be intoxicated by various methods. Decades of making drugs illegal will never change that and the 'war on drugs' is futile. It needs to be a worldwide thing and it will probably never happen but I've always said regulate and control the industry. Keep it away from the black market and evil ganglords. It will make the drugs themselves safer and cut out a lot of related crime. Just telling people that "drugs are bad, don't take them" has not ever and will not ever work.
But could they? A simple thing like hay fever tablets cost £8.20 on prescription and a quid in Asda. Legalise it and Devon farmers will grow it amongst their grazing Ostrich, prices will plummet in the hands of commercial monsters, whilst Columbia and Peru will wonder, in their third world nativity, just what the **** just happened.
Isn't there some argument that hemp was demonised because it was so versatild, it was a threat to so many other industries?
Teachers, always express their concerns about other teachers AFTER something happens, never before. A good example of that is a few years ago a teacher 'eloped' with an under-aged schoolgirl to France. The teachers at the school KNEW something was going, but did nothing at all. Story breaks and suddenly they're all expressing their earlier concerns. They did nothing because the intergrity of their colleagues and profession is far more important to the majority of them than any abuse of the children under their care.
I dunno about that. Cannabis is well known to be regularly cultivated over here even with its tropical and high intensity lighting requirement. But do we have any major cocaine horticulturists in the UK? I've never heard of any outside of South America really.
People who need help and ask for it should be given the help they need. If someone is addicted to drugs they are not in a position to make the decision to use or not use. If he made the decision to snort up at a party thinking it was no big deal than that is something I wouldn't forgive. It isn't splitting rights and wrongs it's a belief that people who need help should be given that help with as little consequences as possible. The worst thing is to put other people who need help in a situation where they run the risk of getting fired when what they need is compassion. To your comment about Lance. He wasn't addicted to drugs he was taking them to gain an advantage in bike racing. It's not a legit comparison.
