In the past three years soft drugs were posted to Leinster House to Members of the Oireachtas. While we joked about it at the time, it is really not funny, in the same way that alcohol abuse is not funny. When I see winos in the street, I say to myself there I could be but for the grace of God. Their lives are finished. They are not human beings any longer, as they exist in an almost vegetative state. The only solace they get is through the efforts of compassionate people who try to help them in their hour of misery. That is not funny, nor is a battered woman who has suffered as a result of these substances, whether it is alcohol or drugs. There is no glamour in this and it is not funny either. We have to take the comedy out of it. It was said comedians always relied on the drunkard for most of their punch lines. Making jokes about people with a stammer is no longer politically correct; neither should making jokes about abuse of alcohol or drugs. We can be so politically correct on other issues, ones which can be of infinitesimally small import. Let us be politically correct where drugs are concerned also.