Lily Allen: 'I'm not pro-drugs'

Getting on their high horse about Lily Allen? It seems that everyone's at it. Following an interview with Word magazine, in which the pop star had the temerity to suggest that drugs might not instantly turn you into an crazed lunatic, the tabloids have enjoyed giving her a good kicking. "Drugs won't kill you, says Lily" screamed the Daily Mail. "Misguided" ranted drugs charity Addaction. "Lily claims cocaine counts towards your five-a-day" screamed the ... OK, so we made that one up. You'd think the original interview was some kind of debauched exchange. Actually, the wildest thing Allen said was probably: "The only [newspaper] story is that drugs are bad and they will kill you - I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story." The tabloid furore has forced the singer to state that she's not pro-drugs at all. "At no point [during the Word interview] does [Lily] say that drugs are a good thing ... (link)