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This week, host of the most open and (sometimes a bit
too brutally) honest talk show anywhere on London's
airwaves: Big George, try's to work out... exactly
what the ruling on drugs actually is? If there’s a WAR ON DRUGS, then drugs are winning,
hands down! Huge numbers of people regularly take
them, considerably more have dabbled and the number of
deaths per year is infinitesimal compared to booze.
But, whereas alcohol is available in every sweet shop
and petrol station in the country, drugs are much
easier to get hold of... if you’re looking. So what
constitutes a minimum of 15 years in a category A wing
and what wouldn’t get a second glance from the average
copper?
Can you have an oxo cube size of hashish pot on your
person and be safe from arrest?
Is it all right to celebrate a good week at the office
with a few lines of Cocaine in the privacy of your own
home?
Does anyone care if a junkie OD’s under Waterloo
bridge?
Cannabis: is it class B? class C? In every classroom
in the country? And is it a more or less harmful
substance than a “run faster” steroid that makes men
chesty and impotent and women grow beards?
What about if your Mum is prescribed with Aspirin and
you take a couple for a headache, is PC Plod going to
bust down your door? Of course not! How about if your
ADHD suffering son sells you a Ritilin for a tenner to
augment his pocket money?
The answer to all these questions depends on what
lawyer you’ve got. And talking of morality, or lack of
it, ask yourself, what really is the difference
between the filthy smack addict lying in their own
muck and a city glory boy snorting up some high grade
Bolivian marching powder?
What about a 16 year old hoodie happily swinging on
Ecstacy down a municipal slide and a snake hipped pop
star capturing inspiration in a cloud of homegrown
mumbo grass?
Also, why is a mushroom that grows naturally
everywhere in the country since before there were
laws, seen by the courts as dangerous as highly
processed heroin or cocaine? One is an indigenous
fungi, the others often mixed with dried car battery
flux, ground glass and strychnine, sold by gangsters,
who are supplied by murderers, who’ve dealt with the
extortionists that enslave entire communities.
FACT: ALL controlled (or to be more accurate,
uncontrolled) drugs are illegal and liable for
prosecution.
But if that’s the case, why is it I smell more whacky
baccy on the streets of London than outside of an
Amsterdam coffee shop?
My view, for what it’s worth... legalise all drugs and
make them available free of charge!
WHAT!!!!!
Ah, but users would have to attend a centre (the size
of a stadium) to have them administered and remain on
site for the duration of the intoxication. Whilst
there, the emphasis would be on engaging in some form
of socially beneficial task to occupy the drugged up
minds. The savings on policing and household insurance
alone would fund another War on Terror, give nurses
20% more pay and buy every child in the country a
musical instrument. Although more importantly, it’ll
keep the zombies off the street.
Big George (drug free in the 21st century) is on BBC
London 94.9 and online www.bbc.co.uk.co.uk/london
every weekday morning 2am to 6am
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