In case you haven't heard, rumour has it, there's a new drug on our streets, doing the rounds.
A highly addictive, white substance that brings on an intoxicating high. Users crave the rush it brings them. By all accounts, they can't get enough of the stuff. Sugar ... it's cheap, legal and readily available 24/7 and if you can't handle it in its pure form, there are plenty of ways you can still get your fix. You simply have to purchase it in manufactured form. Whether that be as a chocolate bar, ice cream or fizzy drink, one thing is for sure, addicts don't have to worry about the issue of supply ... yet.
I say yet because I have to wonder just how far the powers that be will go, in order to control the use or abuse of this precious white substance. Will they ration it? Ban it? Add it to the list of controlled substances or take the extreme measure of making it illegal?
Sounds ridiculous, right? Sugar being an illegal substance. I can just see it now.
Users everywhere, waiting for darkness to fall and then taking to roaming the mean streets in search of a sugar dealer. These drug dens will undoubtedly earn themselves some kind of trendy name like lolly shops, Wonkaworlds and crystal cribs. The cooks will be kept frantically busy, bagging up anything from a teaspoon to a kilogram of the deadly white crystals. I don't even want to contemplate what the street value will be, but for the future drug lords it will certainly be one sweet deal. I know we have great cause for concern as far as health related issues are concerned but I am a worried that sugar is fast becoming the "fall guy" in a much bigger problem. Sugar, as sweet as it is, does not actually contain that many calories, so the argument by Cr Ray Stevens that it causes obesity is, in my opinion, questionable. Carbs do that, particularly the white ones, like bread, potatoes, pasta, noodles and rice, all converting to sugars of some kind, once consumed, then passing themselves of as energy
