Georgieboy wrote:
Well you are wrong there Vasty..More available than you suggest.
Think the difference was that it did not penetrate down to the really young., and you really had to be 'in the know'. Being at university helped a lot.
Ah well, you didn't mention that. Universities were probably the only places outside of London where hard drugs were available.
My brother has been a policeman since 1984 and he says drugs were not an issue in Wakefield until the very end of the eighties with the rave scene and even then it was limited. The only areas he recalls with serious drug issues were parts of Leeds (won't take much working out) and one of the Bradford sink estates.
He's retired now but he will tell you that drugs are everywhere now and the police are almost powerless they are so overwhelmed, hence the availability and the temptation.
Drugs were glamorised in the sixties and seventies and the trail of destruction and corruption is there for all to see. I'm so glad I was around in the 80's when we were just playing at being rebels, now it's for real and it's awful.
I sincerely hope Minns is reformed and if he joins us has a great career and will carry on preaching the anti-drugs message because it's sorely needed.