Cokehead Kate

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Originally posted by graham55:
They all knew this long ago, so why the huge fuss now?

Graham

They knew it but lacked photographic evidence, one supposes. What I can't wrap my mind around is why she's such hot property - she's somewhere between a bit of a vapid plain-Jane and a scrawny trout to my eyes.

Yeah, like you say, who cares? No shortage of models out there, many of them considerably more attractive than Cocaine Kate.

EW

I just heard it said on the news that the fashion industry has a "special responsibility" because it influences young people.

(I wonder what would be said of the hifi industry? That it has a special responsibility because it influences middle aged men?)

I'd have thought that part of the "glamour" that followers of the fashion world like is the freedom to misbehave enjoyed by its most visible (and wealthy) members.

Yea but I would still, you know.

quote:

Originally posted by garyi:
Yea but I would still, you know.

Like I keep saying, despair springs eternal!

EW

I thought Kate Moss was a clothes horse, I don't remember her signing up to be a role model for anyone.

For me the tragedy is that we know so much about all of the kinds of addiction, we have the experience, we have the case studies, we have the facilities; and seemingly all we can do gorp at headlines, whilst another life is flushed down the pan.

I think of Sandy Denny dying all those years ago, because no one knew what to do for her, and now we really don't seem to have moved forward at all, for me that's the tragedy.

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Originally posted by Diode100:
I thought Kate Moss was a clothes horse, I don't remember her signing up to be a role model for anyone.

For me the tragedy is that we know so much about all of the kinds of addiction, we have the experience, we have the case studies, we have the facilities; and seemingly all we can do gorp at headlines, whilst another life is flushed down the pan.

I think of Sandy Denny dying all those years ago, because no one knew what to do for her, and now we really don't seem to have moved forward at all, for me that's the tragedy.

Steady on, I'm sure she'll be OK once she recovers from the slight loss of earnings! Just think, the loss of all those lucrative contracts might just curb her enthusiasm for snorting expensive white powders up her dainty little snout!

And she'll live happily ever after...!

EW

Chaps

It would be nice if she got sent down for a few years.

Regards

Mick

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Originally posted by Mick Parry:
It would be nice if she got sent down for a few years.

...er, why?

EW

Oops, sorry if that seemed over the top, but I doubt that things are ever that straight forward.

garyi

Really? She's a chain-smoking junky.

Personally, I'd rather have Keira nightly.

Graham

EW

Anyone who takes class A drugs is frankly a selfish sod. The entire industry creates more misery and crime than anything else.

She can afford the luxury of an expensive clinic to dry out, a lot of others will have wrecked lives.

She has acted irresponsibly and deserves a custodial sentence.

Regards

Mick

Mick,

I think a hefty fine would suffice; snorting a stimulant is hardly the crime of the century is it? Anyway, with the loss of all those contracts she's been fined already, so there it is. Tell her not to do it again and get something proper to eat!!!

EW

EW

Not only must justice be done, it must be seen to be done. Lock her up.

Regards

Mick

Solve ths problem and the associated crime wave that follows drug taking by legalising drugs and providing them in a controlled manner with the required medical attention - this takes out the dealers who are motivated to increase the number of customers to become addicts. It reduces the associated crime because the drug taker can get drugs legally and easily and so do not have to go breaking into cars and houses.

OK so a few will overdose - but they do so at the moment in places where they try to hide, if it was legal they could imbibe in full view and be monitored and be helped.

So:

TRY refreshing, new, CRACK COCAINE!

Or:

Address the real problem which as I see it is the need that people in all parts of our society have to self-medicate. It's only fun for a while - ask any addict.

I would like to see the photographer banged up for invasion of Privacy.

She should be allowed to do whatever she chooses in her free time.



Nigel

Mick
Totally agree
BTW who is she

Nigel just saw yor post
If it were you:
you would be finger printed, DNA sampled (which is kept on record forever)do you think this will happen to her? She can rot for all I care, just like the scum who peddle the stuff not to far from me, we are in the stix BTW
Just remember that.

So, the Daily Tabloid readers are frothing at the mouth, but what has actually happened?

A posh bint has sorted some coke. Thousands have dne it before, thousands will still do it. Who cares?

Min you, it would be OK to be an alcoholic wouldn't it?

DS

Martin

The only reason that she is being investigated is that she is famous and therefore got her picture taken.

I am not suggesting that doing coke is sensible, just that it is not a level pool table.


Nigel

Quite

Tell that to the rude boys in Brixton. The Police don't really need photos before they investigate.

Moss is a serial abuser, so may deserve what's coming to her for persistent breaches of the law.

And, by the way, there's nothing "posh" about her. She's a slapper, through and through.

G

Mick,

The strategy of locking people up for doing drugs has proved about as effective as...

Drug addiction needs to be treated as the medical issue that it is, rather than being criminalised.

The only country that's made significant headway against drug problems by criminalisation did so by cutting off people's hands and worse. Hardly the sort of thing we need here.

The drug problem here and elsewhere is only ever going to get fixed when the country grows up and starts treating substance abuse in a more adult manner. Then, instead of funding the war at both ends, we could actually focus on helping people who have a problem.


regards,

Tam

Tam

We and Uncle Sam are heavily booted in Afghanistan, whence 90% of heroin in the UK is said to originate. So why the flick don't our boys simply destroy every single poppy field?

Graham