Don’t get stoned, Mick and Keith advise

The Rolling Stones say “don’t get stoned”. That has to be the headline of the year, and there are still 10 and a months left of it. But, kudos to the Stones, it seems they are admitting the errors of their ways.

“When we were experimenting with drugs, little was known about the effects,” Mick Jagger said at the premiere of a film showing the band in concert. “In our time, there were no rehab centres. Anyway, I didn’t know about them.” Jagger, 64, experienced international notoriety when he was briefly jailed in 1967 for possessing drugs, but he is better known now for his devotion to fitness. He prepares for tours by running 12km a day, swimming and kick-boxing. Keith Richards, the band’s guitarist and a former heroin addict, warned that if Amy Winehouse, the 24-year-old singer famous for songs such as Rehab and Addicted, did not give up drugs she could end up looking as wrinkly and wasted as he did.

“… [you] could end up looking as wrinkly and wasted as he did”, now how’s that for an enticement to give up drug use?