And it's game, set and 'Meth' to Agassi

And it's game, set and 'Meth' to Agassi!

Hats off to Andre Agassi for admitting that he took 'recreational' drugs (as opposed to the really hard work ones that I got messed up with) during his tennis heyday.

I would love to find out what the percentage of population hasn’t taken drugs but I would hazard a guess its low.

Is it not now a part of growing up? A right of passage, much the same as smoking or getting drunk for the first time.

It is our demonising of it is that is ensuring that it has become a lucrative underworld business that is perceived as 'cool'. It also means that drug taking is often done in seedy surroundings using un-clean equipment.

During my formative I took drugs which led to me being diagnosed with Hepatitis C some twenty years later.

By that time I had long since stopped taking drugs and as the owner of a small pub chain, I had switched my allegiance to alcohol.

Anyone with knowledge of how hepatitis c attacks your liver will know not to drink.

So for the second time in my life (discounting cigarettes) I was forced to go 'cold turkey'

Speaking from a personal point of view, giving up alcohol was far worse than giving up drugs. Not just the physical and mental side of it but the fact that it's everywhere and socially acceptable even encouraged.

This brings me to a conundrum. Whilst drugs are seen as taboo even though most have done it, alcohol is not. But needing help to give up either are viewed as a weakness of character

Surely it's time to give up the hypocrisy and admit that we all fallible.

As for Andre Agassi, let he who is without sin take the first serve!