Buzzin Disgrace

Over the past few years celebrity drug use has been at the forefront of public attention due to high profile stories.

In 2005, Kate Moss was, photographed allegedly snorting cocaine as well as Pete Doherty with his crack cocaine and heroin dependency. Now of course, we have Amy Winehouse who doesn’t care who knows she’s an addict, a great role model for our children, but it’s not just celebrities any more.

Today the heir of Tetra Pak, a multi billion pound business fortune and his wife have had the charges against them dropped, how can that be justified I wonder!

Hans Kristian Anders Rausing, 45, and his wife Eva Louise Rausing, 44, were arrested in April, when Mrs Rausing allegedly tried to smuggle crack cocaine and heroin into the American Embassy in London.

A search was then made on their £5 million house in Chelsea, where it was claimed that 0.2oz (5.63g) of crack cocaine, 0.1oz (2.9g) of heroin and nearly 1.8oz (52g) of cocaine were found on April 8.

Scotland Yard investigated the case and the couple were charged with possession, however, at the Westminster Magistrate’s Court, District Judge Timothy Workman has said that the charges against the couple would be formally discontinued at a hearing in August.

The couple actually met in rehab in the US, and the wife admitted that her drugs problems were not over.  The most ironic of this case is that the Rausing’s have been at the forefront of the battle against drugs, trying to steer young people away from taking the wrong path.

Unbelievably, Mrs Rausing, is the patron of a charity called ‘Mentor’, who’s mission is to prevent drug misuse and promote the health and well-being of young people.!

Why have they just been let off with a caution, could it be anything to do with his wealth?.  Surely the drugs laws are there to apply to everyone, but apparently not, celebrities and the rich do not come under the same rules as the rest of us it appears.