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Now United Nations Slam Amy Winehouse

For the global drugs trade...

  • by C Taylor
  • Sunday, November 18, 2007
  • filed in: Funk
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Amy Winehouse has been singled out by the head of the United Nation's Drugs and Crime Office for 'glamorising' cocaine use.

Antonio Maria Costa singled out the singer, as well as supermodel Kate Moss, as symtomatic of a charity campaign happy celebrity culture, which then ignores the devastation the drug trade is having on developing nations.

He said, "Rock stars, like Amy Winehouse, become popular by singing 'I ain't going to rehab' even though she badly needed, and eventually sought, treatment."

Costa added that some impoverished West African nations are facing "complete collapse" due to South American drug bosses carving out new smuggling routes to Europe through the area.

What a load of rubbish - everyone knows it's all Pete Doherty's fault.
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  • Why can she not just be arrested and put away for a long time? She’s admitted to using illegal substances so that should be enough to lock her away for a while plus she can also be locked up for her crimes against music (and hair)

    ~ by Rachel 11/18/2007

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  • Drug laws need to be changed. You can’t control drugs, they’ve been part of every culture since the begining of time. Law makers are just control freaks. If drugs were decriminalised, there would be more control, and less infatuation.

    ~ by avid reader 11/18/2007

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  • Idk amy winehouse needs help but I mean she has good music plus everyone does drugs now a days because she

    ~ by Amma 11/18/2007

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  • I blame the media. why don’t they report my neighbor’s drug usage? it’s just hypocrisies. maybe because they wanted to boost someones drugs sales. Yeah the UN are such good examples of morals right?

    ~ by Thomas 11/20/2007

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