{"id":888,"date":"2007-11-16T22:45:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T02:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/cocaine-the-new-blood-diamond-bonus-un-blames-celebs\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T22:45:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T02:45:47","slug":"cocaine-the-new-blood-diamond-bonus-un-blames-celebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"Cocaine, the New Blood Diamond *Bonus, UN Blames Celebs*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use of cocaine by celebrities is encouraging death and destruction worldwide. So says a UN official.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;One song, one picture, one quote that makes cocaine look cool can undo millions of dollars worth of anti-drug education and prevention,&#8221; read the text of a speech by the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All these celebrity role models, turned into junkies, have in fact spent a lot of time in rehab lately, and their lives are a mess,&#8221; he said at a conference in Madrid.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In Colombia, cocaine has also provided hundreds of millions of dollars to fund Marxist rebels and far-right paramilitaries, claiming thousands of lives a year, mainly poor peasants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will now blame Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan (Among others&#8230;)for this cocaine induced strife.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/articlepage.aspx?area=\/breaking_news\/breaking_news__africa\/&amp;articleid=325102\">Mail and Guardian Story <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use of cocaine by celebrities is encouraging death and destruction worldwide. So says a UN official. &hellip; <a title=\"Cocaine, the New Blood Diamond *Bonus, UN Blames Celebs*\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=888\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cocaine, the New Blood Diamond *Bonus, UN Blames Celebs*<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}