Drugs double standards

Tuesday, 18th September 2007

According to the Mail:

Jodie Kidd could lose up to £500,000 worth of modelling contracts in the wake of claims that she procured cocaine for undercover reporters posing as businessmen. 
The lost contracts will, presumably, be because she'll be unable to undertake any modelling assignments from prison (if the allegations turn out to be true). After all, oughtn't a prison sentence to be a foregone conclusion for a supplier of Class A drugs? 

Or are we back to the usual double standards - that dealers on sink estates are scum who deserve to be locked up, but it's somehow different altogether when the dealers and the people they supply are 'people like us'?

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