Dear All
Oxford University has taken the usual step of officially asking its students not to deal in heroin.
The move has been caused by a tip off of college chiefs at Christ Church College that undergraduates were exchanging the class A-drug for cash.
Every one of the 426 students has been warned they face instant expulsion if any are found either dealing or using illegal substances.
One student piped up;
“On the surface Christ Church appears to be full of hard-working, bookish students. In reality, drug use and supply is widespread”.
And we should remember that the son of Labour MP Jack Straw, Will Straw made headlines for receiving a formal police caution for drug-dealing while at Oxford.
Will Straw was selling Cannabis after being caught out by an undercover reporter.
A high profile casualty of heroin at Oxford University was Olivia Channon in 1986. She was celebrating the end of her finals when she died of a heroin overdose after a wild drugs party.
Another high profile drug user at Oxford was former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, she was a dope smoker.
A spokesperson for the University of Oxford said yesterday;
“The University and the colleges take illegal drug use very seriously”.
Not seriously enough as he follows this up by saying;
“It is first and foremost a welfare issue”.
No, it is a crime issue on multiple fronts.
If Oxford University and Christ Church College are serious about ending the problem then surely the route is mandatory random drug testing.
I don’t suspect they are that serious, just rattled because the story is doing the rounds in the public domain.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Oxford University has taken the usual step of officially asking its students not to deal in heroin.
The move has been caused by a tip off of college chiefs at Christ Church College that undergraduates were exchanging the class A-drug for cash.
Every one of the 426 students has been warned they face instant expulsion if any are found either dealing or using illegal substances.
One student piped up;
“On the surface Christ Church appears to be full of hard-working, bookish students. In reality, drug use and supply is widespread”.
And we should remember that the son of Labour MP Jack Straw, Will Straw made headlines for receiving a formal police caution for drug-dealing while at Oxford.
Will Straw was selling Cannabis after being caught out by an undercover reporter.
A high profile casualty of heroin at Oxford University was Olivia Channon in 1986. She was celebrating the end of her finals when she died of a heroin overdose after a wild drugs party.
Another high profile drug user at Oxford was former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, she was a dope smoker.
A spokesperson for the University of Oxford said yesterday;
“The University and the colleges take illegal drug use very seriously”.
Not seriously enough as he follows this up by saying;
“It is first and foremost a welfare issue”.
No, it is a crime issue on multiple fronts.
If Oxford University and Christ Church College are serious about ending the problem then surely the route is mandatory random drug testing.
I don’t suspect they are that serious, just rattled because the story is doing the rounds in the public domain.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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