Gloomy president

President Dmitry Medvedev asks Vladimir Putin to introduce criminal liability for drug use and forcibly treat drug addicts. This was reported by the Kremlin press service.

In June 2011, the government should submit relevant documents to the president. We are talking about the “systematic non-medical use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as well as about the possibility of applying a small severity associated with drugs, and the obligations of the medical and rehabilitation procedure for getting rid of drug addiction as a punishment for persons who have committed crimes,” Medvedev said.

Illustration: Edjamesharding

It remains to wish the president to pay attention to those who could get into the list of drug addicts: there are many interesting characters. Among them: a member of the Public Chamber, an activist of "Young Guard", athletes and musicians.

“Salt” compiled a list of celebrities, who at one time could also be sent for compulsory treatment.

Vlad Topalov, musician, member of the Public Council of the "Young Guard"
Cocaine, ecstasy
- One winter evening (in January 2004), my friends and I sat, and I said: “Come on! Why? " And we tried. So it all started. I practically do not remember the first six months. It's like a black-out when you remember only in pieces, shots.

When I tell this, they usually do not believe me. People can eat two pills overnight. We ate 10-15 per night. Once we ate 150 tablets from Friday from Friday to the evening of Monday for three.

[Four years later] I realized that it was much steeper to abandon drugs, talking about it absolutely sincerely, honestly and be proud that it is in the past and that there is finally the opportunity to choose a new life and live it the way you always dreamed.

From Topalov’s interview with the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper

Andrey Lysikov Dolphin, musician
Heroin
- In fact, I only indulged in heroin. Sniffed. But one fine day a close friend came to me and said that if I don’t throw it, then he will no longer communicate with me. And I decided to just end this. It so coincided that at that time we just left for two weeks in a tour, and I did not use anything. A month later, I realized, at the bottom of which pit was lying. At first, use even stimulates mental activity, and you can extract something new for yourself. For example, write a new song. But then it all ends with a nightmare.

From an interview with Lysikov, the newspaper Moscow Komsomolets

Gleb Samoilov, musician
Heroin
- I can distinguish a drug addict from not a drug addict. [ - Because yourself?] Because yes, it was a long time ago, it was six years ago. For three years I have been an Orthodox Christian, which, of course, is incompatible with drugs. There were a lot of angry and repentant transmissions on our part, etc. The only conclusion to which we came to are programs in which the rock star repents that yes, it was, I used, but now I threw it now. They only strengthen young people in the fact that you can really abandon.

From an interview with Gleb Samoilov Vladimir Pozner

Vadim Samoilov , musician
Cocaine, heroin
- I used it. Thank God, we can talk about this in the past tense. If we count the first pampering, then seven or eight years will be gained, of which the first four years is really pampering, and the last four this is a systematic increase in interests, with a fairly famous outcome. It seems that you have recently tried the first time, and once, they fly imperceptibly for two years. And it turns out that for two years now you have been spending a lot of money and a lot of time on what you have fun with cocaine. Well, after cocaine stopped bringing pleasure, it all ended with heroin. And when I experienced all the charms of addictions - thank God, I was not in the system for long - I realized that it was time to stop and stop.

From an interview with Vadim Samoilov Mahail Kozyrev

Andrey Mr. Malaya, musician
Heroin
Heroin sniffed, or among the people - "Herandos",
And a month later my nose became like a vacuum cleaner.
I did not take stories about the sick leave seriously.
And he did not imagine, what is such an overdose.

I smoked, I thumped
Heroin sold.
Sobered up, realized,
He tied with drugs.

Andrey's poems about St. Petersburg youth

Kirill Tolmatsky decl, musician
Marijuana
- This club is free, so I will smoke grass.

This was what Deiets said during his concert in the Club Che Guevara

Bogdan Titomir, musician
Calls himself "a professional in psychoactive substances"
- I got rid of drugs on my own. He did not lie anywhere, although the famous Dr. Murad Nazarliev, my root, suggested going to him in the clinic. I switched to extreme. So smoothly and overcome himself, changed one hobby to another. I switched from drugs to adrenaline rage. Carried away by a snowboard, a sportbike. Adrenaline turned out to be a hundred times more powerful than the same fucking heroin or cocaine.
Although they say that drugs are the biggest evil, I think there are things wise. For example, genocide or AIDS. But drugs are very serious. People die from them, they undermine health and psyche. Particularly severe drugs are such as Gerych. It's scary. I went through this and do not recommend anyone.

From an interview with Titomir, the Ukrainian newspaper "Facts"

Ksenia Sobchak
Cocaine
- Cocaine in my life was. But I was not addicted. Moreover, I did not understand what the buzz was. The same with alcohol and cigarettes. I can smoke a pack overnight, but then I can not smoke for weeks. I never used it regularly, but I know what it is. I am surprised by Russian performers who say that they did not hear about cocaine.

From an interview with Sobchak

Zemfira , musician
Screw, cocaine
In 2007, the Life newspaper in the article “Zemfira suffers from drugs” reported that, “according to fans, in 1996 Zemfira often hung with friends in the empty studio and cooked the“ screw ”. In 2010, the publication reported that "our correspondents were shot on video and photographed how the" scandal girl "sniffs a substance very similar to cocaine." However, the singer herself accused the newspaper of slander.

Alexander Medvedev Shura, musician
Cocaine
- For three years I have been sitting on drugs. It was a very difficult period. I somehow managed to work, but I had to eat drugs. Russian show business is simply stuffed with drugs. I also really wanted to try. There was simply no strength to resist. Thank God all this ended. I went through a rehabilitation course in a good clinic.

From an interview with Medvedev, the newspaper "Arguments and Facts"

Russian athletes. Marijuana
For the use of marijuana in different years were disqualified:
- Gymnast Stanislav Kotelnikov,
- Sumoist was exiled to Gagloev,
- Rugbists Andrey Garbuzov and Yaroslav Rechnev,
- Plier Vladimir Leontyev,
- Biathlonist Alexander Ogarkov,
- Tvyatreye Vladislav Chernushevich,
- Freestyist Nikita Soloviev.