Mmmm? Let's do some lateral thinking!

£60 Million spent designing a tram system that could have been designed for £5 Million! About as much again being spent designing a hare brained railway scheme criss-crossing the airport. A scheme that will increase timetable perturbation, and actually make journeys longer etc. A central Edinburgh Traffic Management scheme that was a dismal failure and a waste of money.

Lot's of money being extracted from the taxpayer and lots of money being spent on cocaine? Lots of half-baked transport iniatives that fail to pass sober judgement. Could there be a connection here?

There exists in Scotland an organization called Cocaine Anonymous which is here and free. Just over five years ago; to die looked like a good result to me as Cocaine addiction had sripped my spirit of any hope.

As a result of this fast growing fellowship I have got my life back on track in a way that is beyond my wildest dreams.
www.cascotland.org; www.cauk.org
0141 959 6363 .10am-10pm Nicholas. M.

2.7 percent of a statistical catagory does not make something a "drug of choice".
It's likely that, as is the case with nearly every other statistical catagory, that the drug of choice will - and always will - be alcohol.
The sooner people start addressing the comparative harms to society caused by legal drugs, the better.
This is not a defence of illicit drugs, but for too long people have used drugs as a means to political grandstanding and marginalising sections of society, while continuing to look away from the harmful effects of alcohol and tobacco.
To say cocaine has become a drug of choice simply masks the reality of the devastation that alcohol causes across all sectors of society.