This is a book that has been recommended to me time and time again by many people from all walks of life (much like the book!) including youth-workers, other patients in an acute-psychiatric-ward, druggy-friends who still have enough "normality" left in them to actually pick up a book and read... so I decided it were high time to join the "High Society" club.
It is a book, published in the earlier-half of the current decade, set in modern U.K. Each chapter tells the story of one of the many characters who sometimes meet, at other times don't, all living their own lives, quite normal to the general population of today, where each and every one of them is troubled in one way or more by the ruthless international drugs-trade. Each main character has a reason why drugs should be legalized. From the selfless-acts of a young politician wanting it legal because everyone is basically a criminal now because of drugs, wanting drugs to be safer (ie: safe injection rooms) so the non-using public are not subjected to it, through to the junkie prostitute and rock-star wanting it legal for their own greedy needs.
Each person puts a different perspective on the drugs epidemic that has taken over the West in a matter of decades. You can't help but to feel for each person, no matter how different they are or are not to you. You see yourself in the selfless politician, as well as the Police Chief, the junkie, the rock-star... all wanting one thing - the legalisation of drugs. People are going to do it anyways, so why not make it legal? It will rule out more crime, potentially more use and easily more deaths.
It is one dark-humoured outlook on an even darker and actual problem we all face not simply as users and abusers, but as anyone in society.
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