Another Tory in your CMU Daily now. Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve has criticised Lily Allen over comments she made about cocaine usage in an interview with The Word.
Allen complained about how the media sensationalised the use of the drug, pointing out, rightly really, that no one ever reports on the fact many cocaine users take the drug a few times a week without it having any major damaging effect on their lives.
She told the mag: "I know lots of people who take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work. But we never hear that side of the story. I wish people wouldn't sensationalise it. Some people are just bad at taking drugs".
She did admit that when she first took the drug as a child she did it because she was "lonely" and "everybody else was doing it", and that she didn't especially enjoy The Experience. But, she added, she, like many others, managed to play with cannabis without becoming a hopeless junkie.
Grieve isn't impressed with Allen's remarks, telling the Daily Mail the singer is "naïve" to assume "there isn't human misery and suffering" linked to drugs, which I don't think she did really, she was just saying drugs and misery don't always go hand in hand. Still, Grieve still reckons Allen's remarks were "dangerous and stupid".
David Raynes, head of the National Drugs Prevention Alliance, seems to agree, telling the tab: "When someone like Lily Allen makes these remarks she is only harming young people who will at some point in their lives have to make a decision about taking drugs. We already have a major drug culture in the UK and she is affecting that".
Drugs or no drugs, Grieve and Raynes really ought to watch themselves with their Lily dissing - she'll be publishing their mobile numbers on Facebook if they're not careful.