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Does Stormzy Have A Point
The Met Police have tweeted about a heroin drugs bust in Catford, linking it to the Notting Hill Carnival.
Stormy (a British grime artist) has hit back claiming that this has nothing to do with the Carnival, and goes on to say that the same doesn't happen before other festivals.
Has he got a point?
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I ask, because this year, at Glastonbury, visitors can bring their coke, pills and whatever to an onsite testing lab to verify the grade of drugs they are about to consume.
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Your thoughts?
Stormy (a British grime artist) has hit back claiming that this has nothing to do with the Carnival, and goes on to say that the same doesn't happen before other festivals.
Has he got a point?
http://
I ask, because this year, at Glastonbury, visitors can bring their coke, pills and whatever to an onsite testing lab to verify the grade of drugs they are about to consume.
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Your thoughts?
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By the way, Stormzy is a British rapper, like Tinie Tempah. And 'grime' is a genre of music that emerged in London in the early 2000s.
It developed out of earlier UK electronic music styles, including UK garage and jungle, and draws influence from dancehall, ragga and later hip hop.
(from Wikipedia)
It developed out of earlier UK electronic music styles, including UK garage and jungle, and draws influence from dancehall, ragga and later hip hop.
(from Wikipedia)
this is from 2016.
Rather than answer this sliver of delusional idiocy myself, I’ll leave it to Ken Marsh, chairman of the Police Federation:
‘Last year we had an officer stabbed. This year colleagues were assaulted, abused and spat at. How can that be right? It’s completely and utterly unacceptable.
‘The Glastonbury music festival had 40 arrests this year. Notting Hill had 10 times that amount.
‘Year after year there are such high levels of violence against police officers and the public at the carnival. And yet year after year nothing changes. Something needs to be done.’
Thank you, Ken. I think that puts it in perspective. Glastonbury – 40 arrests across a week, mainly for drugs offences. Notting Hill Carnival – 454 arrests across two days, 43 officers injured and eight taken to hospital, five members of the public stabbed. Oh, and while we’re on the subject: Cost of Glastonbury to the taxpayer – almost nothing. Cost of the carnival to the taxpayer – at least £7m.
Rather than answer this sliver of delusional idiocy myself, I’ll leave it to Ken Marsh, chairman of the Police Federation:
‘Last year we had an officer stabbed. This year colleagues were assaulted, abused and spat at. How can that be right? It’s completely and utterly unacceptable.
‘The Glastonbury music festival had 40 arrests this year. Notting Hill had 10 times that amount.
‘Year after year there are such high levels of violence against police officers and the public at the carnival. And yet year after year nothing changes. Something needs to be done.’
Thank you, Ken. I think that puts it in perspective. Glastonbury – 40 arrests across a week, mainly for drugs offences. Notting Hill Carnival – 454 arrests across two days, 43 officers injured and eight taken to hospital, five members of the public stabbed. Oh, and while we’re on the subject: Cost of Glastonbury to the taxpayer – almost nothing. Cost of the carnival to the taxpayer – at least £7m.
sp1814 - //Why are drug testing labs set up at Glastonbury? //
Because Glastonbury are developing an adult attitude to drugs, and their users.
The entire issue with illegal drugs is that no-one knows exactly what is in them - which can affect any user who may get a higher dose than they are able to handle, or a dose cut with any kind of poisons used to dilute the drug and up the profit.
As a society, we don't have a choice about people using drugs, the continual abysmal failure of the costly 'War On Drugs' proves that on a daily basis.
The choice you do have, it so try and keep people safe, which is what Glastonbury is doing, and their approach should be rolled out nationwide, instead of society pretending that drugs are only for nasty lowlifes, and they deserve what they get.
Do I wish people didn't take drugs? Of course I do, I wish they didn't drink alcohol as well, but we are where we are.
People are going to put things into their bodies that are potentially harmful to them. We can either grow up and start saving the NHS millions by testing, and keeping people out of hospital, or we can pretend that drugs are simply a nasty by-product of feckless 'young people', and wring our hands and do nothing effective, which has been the approach of governments for the last fifty years.
I dream of a day when politicians will wake up and realise that a 'war on drugs' is vastly expensive, and completely futile, and start approaching the issues from a realistic position.
Because Glastonbury are developing an adult attitude to drugs, and their users.
The entire issue with illegal drugs is that no-one knows exactly what is in them - which can affect any user who may get a higher dose than they are able to handle, or a dose cut with any kind of poisons used to dilute the drug and up the profit.
As a society, we don't have a choice about people using drugs, the continual abysmal failure of the costly 'War On Drugs' proves that on a daily basis.
The choice you do have, it so try and keep people safe, which is what Glastonbury is doing, and their approach should be rolled out nationwide, instead of society pretending that drugs are only for nasty lowlifes, and they deserve what they get.
Do I wish people didn't take drugs? Of course I do, I wish they didn't drink alcohol as well, but we are where we are.
People are going to put things into their bodies that are potentially harmful to them. We can either grow up and start saving the NHS millions by testing, and keeping people out of hospital, or we can pretend that drugs are simply a nasty by-product of feckless 'young people', and wring our hands and do nothing effective, which has been the approach of governments for the last fifty years.
I dream of a day when politicians will wake up and realise that a 'war on drugs' is vastly expensive, and completely futile, and start approaching the issues from a realistic position.
My thoughts is that when a carnival unintentionally offers an opportunity to drug deal and is being used as such, it is just making excuses to claim no link. That drugs are sold/used at other events too doesn't make it ok at the carnival. It just shows the situation isn't unique. One wonders why anyone would encourage a "head in the sand" attitude to the subject.
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