B = BadAcid

A bit of a bizarre font, this one. Which, I suppose, is fitting. I believe there's no such thing as bad acid, just bad trips. But then, seeing as I've only tried it the once, what do I know?

There haven't been any stories about acid, bad or otherwise, unless you count what the McCanns are going through at the moment. Whichever way you look at it, whether they've been caught red-handed or whether God or whomever/whatever has decided that he/she/it hasn't made their lives miserable enough yet, I think they must be thinking they're on the bad acid trip from Hell.

While not directly an acid story but still about drugs, I noticed that suspected Columbian drug baron Diego Montoya has been arrested. I wonder if he is related to Inigo "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die" Montoya (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/)? Anyway, he apparently was responsible for the production of tonnes of cocaine for the American market. I'm sure it's all a case of supply and demand, however.

And then we've got the exhumation and second post-mortem of Racheal Whitear who died after a heroin overdose and whose picture of her corpse was used in adverts in schools etc to try and discourage pupils from getting into drugs. There's evidence now that perhaps it was her boyfriend at the time who caused her to die and that the syringe in her hand in the photo was planted there. Not nice. I wonder if the drug was sourced by Diago?

And from bad acid we go to bad blood. Dame Anita Roddick died today of a brain haemorrage. It would seem that it was a result of her hepatitis C, a disease she picked up after a blood transfusion during the birth of her second daughter, Sam. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6988343.stm. It's ironic that someone who had campaigned for purity in cosmetics, avoidance of chemicals, and general healthy living died the way she did. It just goes to show something. I'm just not quite sure what that is...

And finally, another blog I came across which presents an interesting discussion about addiction from a rozzer's point of view: http://coppersblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/heated-debate.html