It may seem un important information....but it speaks volumes.
London has become a city where people feel they need to escape from reality
to survive the challenges of everyday life, to maintain their status and their
material world.
People have been doing coke in London for donkey's years. In the days of Conan Doyle it was, sensibly, legal, bought from your local pharmacy. Sherlock Holmes favoured it as a drug of choice but preferred his cocaine intravenously rather than snorted.
Yes you are correct David
But is it glorious for this prize city to win such a great title.
I see non -prescription drug taking to be distructive.