Beard Liberation Front
7th June
Media Release: contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
Campaigners say Gove’s 2016 beard may have been related to cocaine use
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that Michael Gove’s confession that he has used cocaine may be related to the beard he grew in the summer of 2016.
Although evidence is far from complete it is thought that there may be a link between the use of cocaine and beard growth:
On October 12, 1860, Abraham Lincoln walked into the Corneau & Diller drug store in Springfield, Illinois, where he regularly purchased such items as bay rum, brandy, and cough candy laced with opium. On that day, Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of a product that a few historians claim contained coca or cocaine,1 thus becoming possibly the first American to buy this newly available substance (Pratt, 1943:153). Little else is known about Lincoln’s pattern of “cocaine” use or its consequences, but the following week he started growing his famous beard and shortly thereafter became president of the United States.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, frankly we think Gove was right to quit cocaine but he should have kept the beard.
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