Hold the coke but lay the booze on me! Apparently people in Toronto (and elsewhere?) feel doing stupid things under the influence of drugs is bad but it’s fine if done during a drunken stupor. Especially if you smoked crack cocaine during one of those stupors.
Their mayor, Rob Ford, excused his drug use because he was drunk at the time. And the people bought it. His approval rating actually went UP five points when information was released about the incident. And they’re quite happy, thank you, to have him continue as their mayor.
I guess I’m old fashioned. I can’t help thinking that a person who is run over by someone under the influence of alcohol is just as dead as if the driver were high on drugs. Further, I’m not sure I’d trust the judgment of someone who has admitted to what seems to be frequent drunken episodes, and, looking at his excuse for smoking crack, I don’t trust his logic. But, then, I won’t get a chance to not vote for him.