MPs on drugs?

Catching headline, no? I mean is it really that unusual for a Member of Parliament, someone who has been elected in to represent us, to have experimented with Cannabis in his/her student years? Is it unusual for your home secretary, who is supposed to set an example against drug use, to admit that she, in her student years, experimented with Cannibis? Do we really want to know? Do we really care?
Well, all those Rhetorical questions above are for you to answer. On a personal point, I feel such things should be kept quiet, especially if you are home secretary. Mrs Smith, British Home Secretary, announced that she has experimented with Cannabis during her student years in Oxford. I am sure that at least 25% of the British parliament has at least tried drugs. Especially considering 1/6 or 10 million of us have. I have not…before you ask! The press bug David Cameron for a “yes/no” response when asked on the issue, he simply gave no comment. Clinton famously stumbled when he said he had, but “didn’t inhale” which led to 10 years of the American press dogging him over the issue. It is a normal thing to have happened…to ‘experiment’ with drugs, I don’t necessarily think it is right, but in our society, especially the university society…drugs is common…FACT. I do not think it is right though that our Home Secretary gives such a bad example. I feel she should’ve kept quiet about it, I rather wouldn’t of known than known. I mean she’s meant to spearhead the campaign against drugs in the UK, a growing problem. I may be overdoing the pudding here, but frankly I don’t think it is right. It’s a bit like Gordon Brown coming out and saying the same thing. If it’s an MP who will never gain power…per se Boris Johnson (bless him), then I suppose it’s alright, but people in power should set examples to us!