As reported in the news, alcohol and coke don't mix - even if the former prolongs the effects of the latter. Still, there are no shortage of people snorting what is really rat poison/worming powder/chalk on a Friday night in the West End.
I have never seen the point of rat poison/worming powder/chalk, and I'd object to being ripped off. Plus, I have never met anyone who wasn't a wanker whilst being coked-up.
But I have always wondered why alcohol - a legal, but no less dangerous, substance - is considered more acceptable by society and lawmakers than coke. As anyone who has ever witnessed a drunken brawl in the West End knows, alcohol can be just as lethal as Mexican marching powder. But why?
The answer, suggests Gill Hornby, is that this is all about money. Coke fuels the Colombian economy, not ours. In a land where manufacturing is all but gone, alcohol is possibly the only thing that's keeping the UK economy going - otherwise, no one would even bother going out.
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