Peaches Geldof has died

[Gandalf]

Lots of bitchy comments about heroin, but if it was alcohol, I suppose that would be more socially acceptable?

Most of us drink, but is heroin so terrible? William Burroughs recovered from alcohol induced jaundice by going back on the junk. It seems to have its uses. As a society we will demonise anything that we are told to, but shouldn't do so. Alcohol and fags are the biggest killers and I don't begrudge this person I have never known using a drug that the American government and international banks are openly laundering money for. We invade Afghanistan and opium production increases ten fold. It is no coincidence.

I have no idea who Peaches Geldof is but it is obvious she was into a drug that has become much more available and cheaply obtained via a gibberish war on terrorism. I have no idea about her personal situation, but I do think heroin is demonized and especially as we have massively hypocritical drug laws in all too many countries.

'Ooh, heroin! Nasty' people automatically assume. But legal drugs are numerically the worst in terms of official death estimates.