Drugs and celebrity - where is the justice

In other entertainment news it seems that the son of Michael Douglas, Cameron Douglas, was arrested last week on drug charges. Cameron Douglas, who has done some acting, faces mandatory 10 years to life for selling crystal meth.

I can understand that the Douglas family is likely very troubled by this turn of events. At the same time there is something I want to note.

There is nothing good about selling drugs. Nor should any celebrity or family member of a celebrity be allowed to trade that fame for reduced sentences. It’s an abuse that the legal system needs to end.

How many times have we heard about this celebrity or that getting away with possession of drug, guns, and various other infractions of the law? How many times has the fame of a celebrity extended to their family – especially the children of well known celebs?

I don’t limit this to just Cameron Douglas. I mean all the celebs out there. Paris Hilton, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Amy Winehouse, Lindsey Lohan, and on and on. They all need to go to jail. They did the crimes and need to do the time. Because if it was you or me, rest assured that we would have been locked up and the key thrown away a long time ago.

I don’t feel bad for Cameron Douglas. He made his choice. But I will be insanely upset if he is guilty and somehow doesn’t receive the mandatory 10 years his crime is required to receive by law.

Toddler power beats drug ring

Criminals these days must deal with many factors, especially if they are involved in drugs. Sniffing dogs, DEA, INTERPOL, detectives, narcotics officers, informants and more are just a few of the hurdles they must outwit or avoid. But for those that can clear all these hurdles, there is one more defender of the law that they have to be prepared for. Toddlers.

Yes toddlers. To be more specific, in England there is 3 year old Kian Parlour, who recently cause an international drug ring to be found and closed. In a somewhat Clouseu-ish act, little Kian was able to do what no one else was.

As it turns out, Kian’s parents were holding onto several packages for their neighbors who were away on a vacation. This is nothing strange as like many neighbors the Parlour’s were doing this and had had it done for them while they were away. But Kian saw the packages stacked in the hallway and decided he needed to see what was inside. Once the packages were opened he presented the prize to his mother, who realized they were drugs and not candy. A quick call to the police and the neighbors’ holiday was at an end.

In total 640,000 pills of diazepam were found, all shipped from Sri Lanka. The neighbors were sentenced to 3 ½ and 2 ½ years individually. And roughly $57,000 worth of drugs were removed from the streets of England. All due to perhaps the youngest sleuth of all.