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antiprohibitionism Celebrities and drugs: between hysteria and hypocrisy

Just pass a day that appear in any news media that relates to a famous with drug. The name of Kate Moss, whose case is discussed in the previous post , could add hundreds more, both national (Carmina Ordóñez, El Marismeño, Poli Díaz, María Jiménez ...) and foreign ( Whitney Houston, Pete Doherty , Oliver Stone, Woody Harrelson , Maradona, Nick Nolte or excellent actor Robert Downey Jr., a regular in the gossip pages of events and for this reason).

The latest celebrity to leave the arena on account of his drug and alcohol consumption was George Michael, but, unlike del modelo al uso, que exige grandes muestras de contrición, propósito de enmienda y el ingreso urgente en una clínica de desintoxicación para volver al buen camino, el británico se ha atrevido a decir que le gusta la marihuana, blasfemia que ha suscitado la airada repulsa de los cantamañanas de siempre . Y no es que Michael sea un apologista a ultranza del consumo indiscriminado de drogas:

«Es la única droga que siempre he creído que merece la pena tomar, pero tienes que esperar. Nunca se me ocurrió tomarla hasta que tenía 22 o 23 años. Tienes que haber alcanzado ya tu correcta posición en la vida», aseguró, tras lamentar haber estado enganchado a otro tipo de drogas in the past.

"I would say it's a great drug, but obviously not too healthy. You can not afford smoke it if you have something to do "

is clear that the smallest positive reference from a public to the delights that will undoubtedly produce drugs is a crimental to be punished with the greatest of insults . Thankfully there are no longer the stake and the stake as in the Middle Ages, more than one and more than two end up in them if some fans depended.

But, however much it annoys them to modern inquisitors, list of famous drug users and not necessarily sorry is huge and covers many more areas that show biz . Scientists like Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould and Nobel laureates in science as Kary Mullis, Richard Feynman and Francis Crick, among those who left the cabinet, acknowledged at the time thereof do not problematic cannabis and other substances, and it is not unreasonable to assume that expand the list if it weighed quite a serious stigma attached to drug use. It would be so stupid to attribute the successes of these and other celebrities to their use of illegal substances such as continuously insist that everyone who uses them is doomed to failure. Sometimes, the winners also drug users, no matter who he gets upset.

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Manuel Artigas A photographer named Kate Moss was able to fool a few months ago, and abusing their trust and violating their right to privacy, we took pictures and videos using cocaine. Judas then sold the material to newspapers and TV stations without any judge will tuck a cigar. Rather, it was Moss which had to appear in court to answer to no one knows what crime. We were very few highlight that this was reprehensible , Not to make the model into their privacy.

Now, after the discovery that third of Italian parliamentarians had recently consumed cocaine and hashish, some have invoked the right to privacy of politicians who, in an exercise of supreme hypocrisy, they voted a law that does nothing considerably hardened drug sentences, even for mere consumption. O all have the right to privacy or do not have one, and the politicians who pass laws that are not willing to comply, even less. To submit to unannounced checks, as they are forced to make thousands of citizens, or they start to legislate otherwise, if not teasing impression that already has a policy becomes unbearable in this case.

Indeed, this story reminded me of an earlier scandal , also in Italy, where he was involved the whole Christ, to a former prime minister and senator who used cocaine "for therapeutic reasons." I guess the event, whose impact was minimal outside Italy, has already been buried and forgotten:

"A great drug and sex scandal reminiscent of Rome's La Dolce Vita Fellinian exploded yesterday with 19 arrests and 35 searches for cocaine trafficking and incitement to prostitution in the so-called "Operation Cleopatra."

A long line of characters 'above suspicion' are accused of or involved, including former prime minister, former foreign minister, former finance minister, former European Parliament president and current senator for life Emilio Colombo, 83 , Undersecretary for Productive Activities of the current center-right government Giuseppe Galati, the provincial council of the ruling National Alliance party Bruno Petrella, some other political and showbiz celebrities, including actress Serena Grandi and Ludmilla model Derkach Ukrainian origin. "

More than La Dolce Vita, these stories remind us Orwell's farm, where all animals are equal but some were more equal than others.