MODAFINIL: THE DRUG OF CHOICE OF GENERATION WORRY

With the image of Jon Snow puffing medical-grade skunk into his lungs through a clear plastic sack now firmly embossed in our minds, it’s safe to say British drug culture as we knew it is now officially dead. Not because Jon’s sesh and accompanying freakout – released online ahead of Channel 4’s Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial, which airs on 3 March – was powerful, just-say-no propaganda. Far from it. If you toke up on your own in a hospital room and then lie down in an MRI machine, things are going to get a bit weird. If Jon’s ordeal warns us of anything, it’s never take drugs under fluorescent lights.

No, what made this scaremongering exercise so pertinent was how much it seemed to chime with the perspective of young people today. Drug use among 16- to 24-year-olds has steadily declined in the past two decades. In 1996 around 30 per cent of young...

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