Sunday, August 9, 2009

Cannabis used as cover whilst alcohol industry counts profits

Participants agreed to meet up at Liverpool Street station, and ride the circle line whilst drinking alcohol.But as is often the case with alcohol things soon got out of hand, and the Great British press carried the stories, with pictures, proving once and for all the "Drink Aware" campaigns are nothing more than the alcohol industry paying "lip-service" to whats fast becoming a national epidemic. The real social issue facing the UK as a country as 10's of thousands of people die or are hospitalised as a result of alcohol use, every single year. A statistic which simply doesn't apply with cannabis.

But perhaps more worrying were the accusations from the RMT - the union which operates the railways, that the press only "touched" on the situation lightly, and in fact things were a lot worse than has been reported nationally and internationally.

According to an RMT spokesman, "At least 50 London Transport staff were assaulted".

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