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Topic: Boy George busted on coke charge
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Sanitary Engineer
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posted 07 October 2005 11:06 PM
George O'Dowd?I thought it was George Bush, the headline was referring to. But GWB probably has a gofer to feed his coke habit, and to fetch his liquor. He's lied about everything else, so I don't believe he gave up "partying" at age 40, and "found the lord", unless he believes "the lord" is at the bottle of a Jack Daniels bottle.
From: Now Living In Ontario | Registered: Oct 2005
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Yst
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posted 10 October 2005 12:34 PM
The star-studded image that cocaine is gaining is certainly worrisome. I just recently learned that one of my oldest and best friends has been recreationally using cocaine for the last year, and is continuing to. And I'm fairly sure the glamour it's acquired has something to do with his decision to indulge in it, stupid as that is. He grew up in a fairly impoverished, problematic urban household which has left him with an odd mix of, on the one hand, progressive politics and on the other, an inner desire nevertheless to be like the rich as he conceives them. And I think he believes that cocaine is something the rich and successful do. It's stupid, but I'm fairly sure it's part of the psychology of it.And Lysiane Gagnon's column today on Boislair in the Globe kind of brought the point home regarding Cocaine's glamour. As far as anyone can guess at this point, his admitted cocaine use (at least he admitted it) doesn't appear to have successfully generated bad press or much overt statement of public concern, and while that may be circumstantially reasonable, it may too be associated with that increasing acceptance. But then, cocaine use didn't so much as put a dint in George Bush's bright shiny wholesome image, and that was in god fearin', drug fearin' America, in a Presidential race, not in progressive, left-leaning Quebec, in the preliminaries to a provincial party leadership race.
From: State of Genderfuck | Registered: Jun 2005
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baba yaga
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posted 11 October 2005 05:26 AM
Heph - ARCs Yea, it was in between the coke use that my ex was the nastiest. After our divorce, I got clean & sober while he secretly became a "recreational" user. I found some on his kitchen table, in full view of our teen children & their friends. Why am I telling all this? Oh, it was a nasty time. [ 11 October 2005: Message edited by: baba yaga ]
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Hephaestion
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posted 13 October 2005 08:42 PM
Turns out there was a bit more coke than they first let on... quote: Newly released documents from the Manhattan District Attorney's office show that the "small amount" of cocaine found in Boy George's apartment was actually much bigger than the performer's lawyer originally claimed.The documents say that a total of 13 bags of the drug were found in his home when he was arrested. Substances found in the 13 plastic bags weighed more than one-eighth of an ounce (3.5g) in total, the legal papers stated. "That is a sizeable amount of drugs," said Maggie Gandasegui from Manhattan's Special Narcotics Prosecutors office. It is not enough, however, to warrant possession for the purpose of distribution charges. Still, if convicted of the possession charge, Boy George, whose real name is George O'Dowd, could face 15 years behind bars.
From: goodbye... :-( | Registered: Dec 2003
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