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It’s not just jueteng HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 09/22/2010

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

It’s not just jueteng

HE SAYS
Aldrin Cardon
09/22/2010
There’s Paris Hilton, and there’s Lindsay Lohan.
Rich and famous, blonde and beautiful, these women are. But they have become the epitome of “good girls gone bad.”
Paris and Lindsay, no longer the bankable bodies and faces around, are at it again, hogging the headlines, this time for their drug use and competing for precious newspaper space with the equally-disgraced Ricky Hatton, who fell into drug oblivion soon after he was reduced to a punching bag by Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao.

Drug use has become so casual with this bunch, with Paris getting caught in possession of cocaine; Lindsay failing another test while on probation; and an image of Hatton snorting the evil powder in page one spread completing his fall from grace.

And then there are the not-so-famous ones.

In July last year, 11 high school students were caught in a pot session in a vacant lot. Unlike Paris, a hotel chain heiress, Lindsay, who has earned enough as a young actress several years back; and Hatton, who has earned millions of dollars pummeling opponents in the ring, these children did not have the money to spend to anything, coming from financially-distressed families which can only barely send them to school, but have fallen in the stinking mire of illegal drug use..... MORE

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