"It was really one of the most surreal moments of my life," Johns said. "It was me and Natalie and Peter Garrett and Bono laying on Bono's bed smoking joints, listening to Young Modern demos."
There were calls for Peter Garrett to get tested for drug use.
Anti-drugs campaigner Tony Wood, whose daughter Anna died of an ecstasy overdose in 1995, said Mr Garrett could resolve the matter by proving the incident initially described by Johns had never taken place.
"The easiest way for him to fix this is to go out and have himself drug-tested today," he said.
Indeed getting tested would be the most obvious thing that Peter Garrett could do. I have no doubts that he'd have a clean result as well.
My gut feeling, and this is just speculation on my part, is that Garrett was prepared to have a test and publicise the results. However his leader Rudd, or one of his other Labor leash holders, has told him not to get tested because they're afraid that once one member of parliament gets tested, they'll all have to be tested!
I'd be willing to bet money that there are more than a few politicians in federal parliament who would test positive for illicit drug use. I'd also be pretty sure that most of them would be on the Labor side. I knew a few prominent Labor party people in my university days and while I never actually saw any of them use drugs, they always had what I thought to be a pretty "relaxed" attitude towards them.
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