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Report criticises media for mixed messages on drugs to young people
Jaded
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Article here. Do you agreee that the media reporting on drugs is contradictory? Are you critical of the information generally available? Just curious to know what you all think...
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I can see their point though, it is a polarised picture, either someone desperate and destroyed by drugs or some wild playboy living the high life.
There is certainly some sexism here too, men have far more ability to get away with drug use as just part of the rock and roll life. Women doing it is seen a lot of the time as desperate.
As for drug use in the tabloids, dont get me started, its one of my constant annoyances.
Thanks for posting the report though, its always good to share interesting tit bits.
Unbiased and factual drug reports are generally not pushed into the public domain or discussed on any kind of high-level - e.g. house of commons/lords - because they would contradict the government's drug policy (which sometimes seems to consist largley of 'Drugs are bad, mmkay?').
That said, the current goverment's policy is better than the Tory's proposed approach. But I digress.
For example, hysterical reports about the Leia Betts incident in tabloids next to the factual post mortem drug report as to the real reasons behind her death are hugely confusing.
Good link, btw. The Guardian and The Observer are two papers that've (fairly consistently) reported factually about drugs.
from magazines to serious newspapers ...the war was over it was time to make love instead.
all the NEW great people were preaching for change ...an end to war and hunger.
the way to achieve this goal was to grow your hair long stop shaving and take fantastic spiritualy awakening chemicals such as LSD. whilst listening to underground or progressive rock music with psycadelic soaked lyrics and the new electronic sounds of the moog synthesiser.
welcome to the magic world.
there was little if any information at all regarding the dangers of drugs ...there were few dissenting voices.
one article i'll never forget was in the daily mirror around 1974.
microdot lsd has arrived! the most powerful and pure ever to hit the streets of the uk!
funny i'm thinking ...i'm dealing lsd here and i never heard about this stuff.
seems no one else across the country had either ...
about three months after this article on how dangerous this stuff would be ...the streets were fulkl of it and ...it was the start of the quality going down not up.
the hows and whys of the report ...where the media knew more than those in the thick of it... has always troubled me.
the sexism issue is true but it depends on the drugs too