Amy Winehouse is absolutely determined not to hide her drug habit – from anyone. For a moment I want you to look back over the course of history and think of the people who refused to hide something they were proud of. They displayed whatever it was for everyone to see, and eventually they forced the backwards-thinking world to accept that they were right. The gay couple who refused to hide their love… the interracial couple who refused to hide their love… and in Amy Winehouse’s case, the drug abuser who refused to hide her love… for crack. Amy Winehouse so obviously flaunts her drug use that one can only assume she’s actually trying to promote it. And apparently the United Nations agrees with me (as they often do).

Celebrities such a s Amy Winehouse and Kate Moss are glamorizing cocaine use and fueling problems in Africa, according to the UN’s drug chief. The Rehab singer, 24, and supermodel Moss, 33, were singled out by Antonio Maria Costa as he warned that drug use in Britain directly contributed to the ‘complete collapse’ of some West African countries where drug cartels corrupt vulnerable governments.

“Rock stars like Amy Winehouse become popular singing, ‘I ain’t going to rehab;. A sniff here and a sniff there in Europe are causing another disaster in Africa. Europeans now understand they should not buy blood diamonds, or clothes made in sweatshops. Yet with cocaine, the opposite occurs.”

Colombian drug barons are sending scores of “mules” to Europe every week from countries such as Nigeria and Ghana where local officials can be bought off, he claimed.

[From the Metro]

I’m pretty sure Amy Winehouse is actually a drug mule. You know that woman could suck a golf ball through a garden hose. Hell, she could probably snort one. She’s probably also responsible for at least half of the collapse of West African countries due to drug cartels. The amount of drugs that woman consumes is astronomical. Of Amy’s concert last night, the Daily Mail noted:

After the disastrous opening night of her UK tour, one might have thought Amy Winehouse would be trying to keep her nose clean. But judging by the white powder lodged in her nostril, that seems to be far from the case.

[From the Daily Mail]

I’m going to assume the best, and believe that Amy Winehouse just has a serious Afrin addiction like me. Sometimes when your allergies go crazy, you use so much that it can congeal with the other crazy stuff going on in your sinuses… okay well no. I mean it can, but it still looks like what it is, not like cocaine. But I’m tired of Amy Winehouse’s crazy drug issues, so I’m going to start spreading the rumor that she has allergies and chronic sinusitis. Because I think the UN is right, in her own weird way, Amy’s glamorizing drug use and trying to make it sexy. And I guarantee you, NOTHING is less sexy than a sinus infection with allergic rhinitis. And that’s my good deed of the day.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Amy demonstrating the glamorous result of drug abuse. Images thanks to PR Photos. Header at her sell-out show at the Winter Gardens yesterday. Images thanks to the Daily Mail.