Drugs.

Part written by Paul Carter...

Talk around the 'Normalisation' of drug consumption and television comedy.

• SHAMELESS, THE MIGHTY BUSH, IDEAL '2004 already began to show on teleivison the use of cannabis as a normal part of many peoples lives'


• 'It is difficult to imagine a sit com being produced and shown by the bbc about a central character whose sole occupation carries a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.'

Until IDEAL - Moz - (Jonny Vegas) ----------->

The Drug dealer!!

Thankfully the BBC do show him as the least glamorous, small time drug dealer.

The chapter about Moz goes on to show the normalization of drugs - under the heading Drug dealers as folk heroes? Drugs and television situation comedy. More on Normalisation - pg56 - The normalisation thesis.

Pg 169, Drugs and popular culture, 2007, William Publishing, Paul Carter.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/apr/28/idealthebestcomedyshowon