ALEC BALDWIN - BALDWIN URGES TOURISTS TO TAKE PART IN NEW YORK'S 'GREAT DRUG TRADITION'

BALDWIN URGES TOURISTS TO TAKE PART IN NEW YORK'S 'GREAT DRUG TRADITION'

Actor ALEC BALDWIN has urged visitors to New York to ditch the city's famous horse-drawn carriages - and get drunk and take drugs instead.
The native New Yorker claims the vices are as valid a "tradition" as the carriages, which he claims are cruel to the horses forced to pull tourists around Manhattan.
Speaking at a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals event in the city on Wednesday (18Jun08), Baldwin told WENN about the traditions he took part in during his youth in New York: "I walked through Union Square on my way to acting class and got offered loose joints. Drug dealing was a great tradition in this city.
"There are other traditions people can get involved with in this city. When I was younger, I used to get a bottle of wine and get drunk under the Staten Island Ferry... so there are things like that you can do."