GORDON Ramsay wants his hard-hitting documentary on the global cocaine trade to be shown to schoolchildren.
“Gordon Ramsay on Cocaine” aired on ITV last Thursday and showed the celebrity chef observing police arresting users and dealers and later visiting Colombia – the world’s biggest producer of cocaine.
The 50-year-old Scot has since responded to feedback from his followers.
One Twitter follower Chloe Galvin wrote: “The documentary @GordonRamsay on @ITV should be shown in schools to raise the awareness of what is actually in drugs! #thinktwice.”
Ramsay then shared the comment and responded: “Agreed Chloe”.
He also retweeted another tweet from Katie Lester, reading: “I strongly think schools of both #UK & #USA should show @GordonRamsay in @ITV’s documentary #GordonOnCocaine!”
The tweets sparked dozens of comments from social media users backing the idea.
Susanne Lawrence wrote: “I agree get it in every UK school.”
Zan Doyle said: “Canada’s drug of choice is prescription drugs just as deadly as #GordonOnCocaine I agree that schools should show @GordonRamsay in @ITV.
Another fan of the show, wrote: “Could not agree more. Hit hard, show them the true reality.”
Another person wrote: “I agree. I myself had no idea what consisted in making this drug. My God, battery acid and gasoline. Just incredible.”
However, some critics expressed how showing children the show would only entice them into exploring the drug.
Chad Dore wrote: “Anti-drug propaganda can have the opposite effect of what you intended. I think your idea, if serious, would be a bad one.
“If you go out of your way to make something look extra bad, people – especially kids – will wonder why and actually want to do it.”
During the hour long show, Ramsay visited his own restaurants to test for use of the drug in his staff and public toilets – showing traces of the drug in both.
But the show attracted criticism from the mother of Ramsay’s tragic protege, David Dempsey who plunged 40ft to his death aged just 31, in 2003, after using the drug.
Eileen, from Glasgow, claimed Ramsay was exploiting her son’s death and criticised him for dredging up the tragedy.
The last installment of the two-part investigation is due to air this Thursday at 9pm on ITV.
