"Deaths from cocaine double"

[sweetheart]

Deaths from cocaine double and toll is set to grow
MICHAEL HOWIE AND JASON CUMMING

* Class A drugs caused a record number of deaths last year
* Cocaine-related fatalities jumped tenfold in four years
* Cocaine has become increasingly popular across society

Key quote: "Three years ago, 80 per cent of our treatment service's clients were ecstasy and 20 per cent cocaine, cannabis and other drugs. Now it's 80 per cent cocaine." John Arthur, manager of drugs support and advice group Crew 2000

LETHAL cocktails of cocaine and alcohol will wreak a "heavy toll" in years to come, the country's drugs tsar warned yesterday as fresh figures revealed the Class A drug was responsible for a record number of deaths last year.

In Scotland's capital alone, cocaine is now present in the blood of about 15 per cent of people who have died from drugs.
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http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1285262006

Even the scotsman, the reliable agent of the propaganda machine is having an honest moment in editorial,
that the drugs war is a proven failure, and that a new approach is in order.

[enid602]

1. Germany

Drug use was apparently rampant in Berlin in the 30's and 40's, as well. Probably for very much the same reasons.

[tridim]

2. Who the hell gets treatment for Cannabis?

That's kind of like getting treatment for eating a salad.

[sweetheart]

3. The UK can be positively silly at times

The presumption is that you can drink like a fish and not be a problem drinker, but
if you smoke cannabis, you must be a drug addict, suffering your filthy habit every hour
of the day so you are not caught out stealing for your next wrap... ! Just the ignorance
about drugs is so thick in the UK, it has made for bad laws and brainwashed people
following a stupid path to nowhere, rabidly judging and imprisoning their own children
for doing what they themselves did, the stupid people died a stupid death.

[SweetLeftFoot]

4. Actually

I love smoking weed but some of the skunk strains now in the UK are so potent they are sending people, usually young men with an existing predisposition, nuts.

[K-W]

5. Reefer madness...

Its these new strains I tell ya, they make all the lies about marijuana true!

[Wcross]

6. Simple- people who get popped on a drug test.

With the ever increasing "drug free workplace" programs in place you will have increases in people seeking "help" with their marijuana "problem". You see, if you test positive for marijuana the only way to keep your job is to enter "employee assistance programs".

[Nikia]

7. Cocaine is not a healthy drug

It is a good way to die from a premature heart attack.

[lastout]

8. double or triple the death rate and you may reach the toll from alcohol

In the U.S.A.

[bamacrat]

9. Cocaine and Marijuana are considered equally as dangerous by the govt.

what retards.