Drugs and the City
How London Bankrolls Terrorism
by Kenneth Eckersley, FCMI, FIOD, HonMPHMA(Int), MCIM, MABFDFE(Brussels)
C.E.O. of C.E.P.T.A. – Council for the Effective Prevention and Treatment of Addiction.

Like every other enterprise terrorism must have a steady supply of money to fund its operations. Who better to look toward than the sons of Eton, Harrow, Rugby and the City for regular funding.
But unfortunately, these fundamentally decent upper class princes of finance appear unaware of two vital factors in their relationship to the current fashionably ‘cool’ drug usage scene.
First of all, their lives and future are more at risk than any other users in the drugs marketplace. Because they pay top dollar to obtain the best gear, they get the very best gear. Their snort, puff or jab contains no impurities. Their cocaine is not ‘cut’ with corn starch, talcum powder or powdered glass. No. They get the genuine article every time, and so become, addicted at twice the speed and twice as intensely. After all, corn starch, talcum powder and battery acid crystals may have unpleasant effects, but they are certainly not addictive. The drug is!
Secondly, the City’s cannabis, heroin, cocaine and crack consumers have no idea of the part they play in the provision of the financial support a dedicated terrorist must have if he is to fulfil his drug promoted destiny.
The Oxford English dictionary tells us that the word “assassin” is derived from “hashish-eaters”: i.e. “Arab / Moslem fanatics in the time of the Crusades who were sent by their leaders to murder Christian leaders by ‘treacherous violence’”. They were prepared for their task by ingesting drugs – mainly Indian hemp which we know as cannabis.
Today, although seldom mentioned in the media, drugs continue to rear their ugly heads in relation to terrorist suicide bombers.
Cannabis, heroin and a wide range of easily obtainable prescription drugs are listed in the British National Formulary official medical handbook as “hypnotics”, and there is a similar range of anxiolytics and pain-killers which can be used to reduce the mental and physical stress a would be suicide needs to endure.
The hypnotics lay individuals wide open to destructive or suicidal suggestions which they otherwise would not take on board or act upon. Even mild hypnotics like cannabis or tranquillisers when coupled with the repetition of certain concepts, chants or commands, or together with pain or exhaustion, will eventually have a subject carry out actions which he would not contemplate when in an un-drugged or un-hypnotised state.
So drugs not only ‘blow their minds’ - they are used to make chemically hypnotised martyrs and their victims are ‘blown-up’!
The wealthy young have always been an easy target for drug pushers. At boarding school, plenty of free time and freedom from parental restraint has laid such pupils wide open to the enticements of cannabis, heroin and cocaine. The pushers can be sure that public school pupils, bankers, stock exchange dealers and other City members are able to pay top dollar – which they do nearly every week.
Fewer and fewer week-end house parties are complete without host provided lines of “coke”, failing which an increasing number of guests will bring their own. This bio-chemical thrill-seeking behaviour seems to be founded in the fallacial belief that, because they are not stealing or committing GBH to pay for their drugs, no harm is being done - but this is pure and dangerous self-delusion.
The illicit drug trade is ruled from its production areas and right up to the local pusher by organised international crime. But even more deadly is the fact that every international and local terrorist group in the world uses drug dealing to provide the major part of its income – without which these groups could not operate.
All upper and middle class “recreational” drug users therefore need to have their attention sharply drawn to the fact that their next “spliff”, “fix” or “snort” is paying all or in part for the bomb that blows up their commuter train or a bus, restaurant or night-club along with their own wives, children or friends.
At the same time, high-class drug usage does nothing for the benevolence and effectiveness of the very leaders of our society. They should be aware of the increasing range of business and financial enterprises which have failed or changed hands because “the management” has to succumbed to finding their relaxation in the currently fashionable manner.
Drug usage has been turned into ‘the fashionable thing for the very best people to do’ by hooking models, pop-stars and other celebrities onto cocaine. For most such users, it is a once a week recreational activity which they feel they can take or leave. However, whilst crack and crystal meth are awesomely fast in procuring total domination over their victims, cocaine has the interesting characteristic of appearing non-addictive for some weeks, months or even years. Then, quite suddenly, over a period of days or weeks it can become possibly the most addictive of all the drugs, as we know from Kate Moss’s unfortunate fall from grace.
The lesson is that every drug-user, whatever their position, contributes to terrorism and to the demise of their own job, business, family and society. Not forgetting, of course, drugs’ increasing contribution to the early deaths of the users themselves.