Kate Moss

[Ding-Dong]

Should social services step in? I couldn't give a tinker's cuss that she's worth millions and has an army of nannies/helpers, she is abusing a class A drug, and in the interests of equality should be investigated by social services, in much the same way as any 'normal' person would.

Better still, the father contest and win custody on the grounds she is an unfit mother.

In my (possibly rather simplistic) mind, if you are taking class A drugs, you are automatically an unfit mother.

[greggo123]

any" normal "person would have had the police kicking the door in, but is it cos she's a celeb she gets preferential treatment,she's only dragging herself down to dochertys level

[january_bug]

I beg to differ greggo123.  Cocaine use is rife amongst 'city slickers' and you don't see every 4 bedroom detached/semi in the home counties having its door kicked it. 

Most of the time, police aren't interested in users.  Instead they watch users and dealers, to find the big guys, and eventually the importers.  So I actually don't think that any normal person would have the police round, whether they kicked the door or rang the bell. 

[undercovers]

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article314026.ece

quite the opposite greggo - she is going to be investigated, simply becuase of who she is and I have read a quote somewhere else saying the police will investigate because they are worried about the example this famous women sets for others.

[january_bug]

And quite right they are too to do so Undercovers.  People in the public eye, who voluntarily place themselves there, understand that they will influence others.  If it's seen as "ok" for Kate Moss to do it, other women/girls may follow suit, especially if they think it will help them to diet.  It surely (as you implied) makes it even more important that she be investigated.  Perhaps though, the police's main line of questioning will be "where did you get it from?" and "where did that person get it from?".  But then tackling the root of the problem is an admirable approach to take in my view.  :-)

[Buddy]

I am not a drug user but I have to as this question -

Why are drugs classified and illegal?

Why is alcohol not classified and illegal?

Why do we produce cars which are capable of 180 mph?

They are all potentially killers butit would appear to be down to personal choice in the latter two.

I know this seems very simplistic but I am playing the Devils Advocate - forgetting KM for a moment.

I am more interested in why drugs are classified and illegal though.