Facebook Groups Glorify Cocaine Use

An anti-drugs group has hit out at Facebook saying that groups on the social networking site promote cocaine use as “a good and fun activity.”

It’s claimed that there are over 500 groups alone – all set up by users of Facebook - that glorify cocaine use. Some have almost 1,000 members. 

Anti-drugs campaigners are calling on the groups to be shut down with immediate effect. They claim that there are a number of photos of users snorting cocaine and comments from people bragging how much they can take in a session.

Peter Stoker, director of the National Drug Prevention Alliance, said: “These sites are advertising the use of drugs as a good and fun activity because the people involved are disciples in the church of cocaine.

“They are not going to describe how dangerous drugs are or warn that 70percent of people who take cocaine will become addicted.”

Of course, the issue has added impetuous following the death of TV presenter Natasha Collins in January, who died following a cocaine binge in a bath of scolding water.

Her fiancée Mark Speight was yesterday found dead at Paddington station yesterday, after seemingly committing suicide.