Firstly, Gove is a remainer and therefore should not be PM.

Secondly, journalists are famed for their drug use and as such are in no place to criticise Gove.  He took it 20 years ago.  He made a mistake.  He'd only be hypocritical in his writing against drug use if he were still using cocaine, but he isn't.

Gove being a slime ball and almost as much of a backstabber as boris should be just as concerning really.

Are there really many journos criticising these Tories *solely* for their drug use? They are all happy to write off their antics in younger days as a bit of jolly fun, something that less privileged drug users arent getting the benefit of.

they must have told gove we know about this and it is too good a story not to print but you can get ahead of it.
no way he just gives that up in a regular interview.

Gove needs to give Barry the bore some of that Colombian marching powder of his

all these experts telling us skunk,pot,coke all highly addictive but all these mp,s with nthe money,time access to drugs supposedly stop in a nano second, makes you wonder why millions upon millions of others cant,

as explained on tv ,its not the coke itself,its the fact that coke is seen as decadent,for the privileged,sign of wealth in certain London circles,be completely different reaction if it was heroin,crack,etc

On D-Day troops were apparently given chocolate with amphetamine in it. When will these stories about the horrifying drug past of our heroes (including obviously, Gove) stop?

Gove will also have to explain why he lied on his ESTA too!

It is not looking good for him. He even wrote an article in 1999 about how bad middle class drug use was! He will be sunk below the water line soon. I wonder if the anti Borris Alliance has a candidate yet!

Both sides gave them out, the Germans gave drugs out like sweeties. Then again both Hitler and Goering (at least) were drug addicts themselves so there was no hypocrisy there :P

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LOL if ever you needed proof Mac has a total sense of humour and sarcasm bypass (which I'm sure has been noted before), please print out the above sad rant! Maybe late on a sunday night with a few late-weekend-bells he just can't see my name with out the chip on his shoulder flaring up

There certainly is a serious conflict of interest having a person in high office who couldn’t bring themselves to live in accordance with the very rules they dish up for others, but there is a potential advantage.

The only realistic outcome of a drug user taking high office would be to review drug law in a more liberal manner, rather than the joke it is at present. Such a person attempting to justify the continuation of such a flawed series of Dickensian laws would get laughed out. There is a large and ever growing set of voices from politicians to scientists who lambast the stringent approach to drug use with regions decriminalising certain drugs with a view of allowing further research to their benefits.
I’m not talking about cocaine, but psilocybin and MDMA (beautiful drugs they are too) that have wonderful properties and healing ability. For far too long this totalitarian regime has dictated to supposedly ‘free’ people (Rousseau-‘man is born free yet spends his life in chains’) just so they can force people other than themselves to be the farmed human that turns the wheel in all the s hitty paid labour that is required to keep productivity going.

‘Turn on, tune in, drop out’.

What that showed was what we surely all must know; that the game is ****.
If you task somebody you call the 'Drug Tsar' to commission an objective review of all drugs and that outcome returns telling a story that counters to the lie used to condition the population, and subsequently sack him then I think we know where the problem is.

The movement against this doctrine is growing.

The idea that we are all controlled into thinking we must desire more of everything (stuff we dont need and has increasingly short usefulness due to rapid change and inbuilt obsolescence) because it spurs employment and growth is rubbish. People get sacked when robots can take their place and wages are controlled at the point all profit is generated (the conversion of energy, not through investemnt; that simply strips value and raises prices)
The fallacy of the democratic illusion, where not only those holding captial dictate the direction, but also the validity of the information used to coerce the electorate doesnt even get scrutinised.
Terrorism used as a clarion to divide people (when terrorism kills only a fraction of the people ideology does) and create the next generation of snooping on everyone who spend increasing amounts of time online that now gets analysed in data forms to predict and control with greater alacrity.

People need to realise we all have a collective investment in things, things that are available to us all. Greed has been used to create artificial need and turns us all blind to nature. We should all be like hippies

Cool graph I saw about the terrorism thing, divide and rule innit.

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Seems absurd that legalisation, decriminalisation and drug consumption rooms are working in Denmark, Portugal, Switzerland, usa + Canada but not even on the agenda here.

Absolutely right Dusty.

The sad fact is that non of the candidtes to my knowledge have talked about the drug laws ( well Javid at least has said something ). Mainly I suspect because they want the blue rinse to vote for them in a run off. OK I can undertsand that but will they do anything about it when in power? No chance!

They are a class of people who operate above the law. They have created a class of people who now openly operate below the law because of the lack of Police the Tory Party has presided over.

Shame on all of them and may they be visited by a pox upon their house's!

It was a sarcastic joke - thanks for explaining it.

What a fool I am, not appreciating your sense of humour