Sherlock just doesn't need drugs anymore. He has John <3

In the original stories SH is addicted to cocaine

" In the Canon, Sherlock already has the flat, he's been living there for a while.  "

he hasn't, you know. They meet and then go and look at the flat and decide that the rent is reasonable when split between them. And then they both move in-I think Holmes may actually move in after Watson even. He's already living in London, yes, in Montague Street (nr the British Museum) assumedly (mentioned in another story) but he isn't living in Baker Street. 

I don't think we have any evidence that Sherlock is financially secure, personally. We are assuming that a. he's old money and b. he's therefore financially provided for. Bearing in mind also that to rent a flat in central London is amazingly expensive, its something like the second most expensive city in the world anyway and Baker Street is an absolutely central location. You'd be looking at around 2k a month minimum even for something a bit dodgy for a 2 bed flat. So even for the deus ex machina that is old money, its a lot. (I mean there's the whole question of John too...).

I've always  wondered if Sherlock and Mycroft might actually have been the illegitimate sons of an old money family...but that rather tells against what we see of Holmes Manor.

I suppose the logical possibility is that there is a trust fund of some kind that Mycroft has control over, eithr because of past drug use or because he just does. 

And the cabbie's remark: "Still the addict."

True.

beekeeper wrote:

I'd love to see Johns room. How tidy is that? =13px

We never see John's room at Baker St., but I don't imagine it would to too terribly different from the one room flat we srr him in at the begining of SIP. That place had the tidiness of military precision. Even the bed had those military corners in the bedding. I'm guessing that Jophn's room is rather like that.

Someone mentioned the scene where John and Mrs. Hudson are looking through Sherlock's things for unmentioned stuff. Mycroft gave Sherlock a ciggerette and he took it to which John exclaims "sh**t" Then in HOB Sherlock goes insane looking for a secret stash of ciggerettes. I know the canon has Sherlock as someone who uses drugs, but in this series I honestly think that a duck is a duck. Sherlock is addicted to nicotine and what they were looking for were ciggerettes.
 

AliceI wrote:

Someone mentioned the scene where John and Mrs. Hudson are looking through Sherlock's things for unmentioned stuff. Mycroft gave Sherlock a ciggerette and he took it to which John exclaims "sh**t" Then in HOB Sherlock goes insane looking for a secret stash of ciggerettes. I know the canon has Sherlock as someone who uses drugs, but in this series I honestly think that a duck is a duck. Sherlock is addicted to nicotine and what they were looking for were ciggerettes.
 

They seem deeply worried about him that night. Only because of cigarettes? 

LOL. But I don't think they are in the flat. Or that (rather harmless) "herbal soothers" are the issue.
I think the danger is that he might go and get something somewhere.

AliceI wrote:

Sherlock is addicted to nicotine and what they were looking for were ciggerettes.

But remember the dialogue in ASiP during Lestrade's drugs bust. Sherlock says he is clean, but Lestrade doubts that the flat is. And Sherlock seems to be nervous about the search as well. Then he shows Lestrade his nicotine patches and states he does not even smoke anymore. That does not sound to me as if he's only a nicotine addict.

beekeeper wrote:

I'd love to see Johns room. How tidy is that?

The ultimate proof that Sherlock usually sleeps in John's room - that's where the mess is. No, just kidding.

one thing bugs me though

Sherlock says to John "you might want to shut up now.".

Why's that then? 

Literally the only reason I can think of is that the flat isn't clean and he wants John to stop talking and winding up Lestrade so he can talk himself out of it.

And agree, cigarettes aren't illegal-but I reckon herbal soothers would be. I really think that's a euphamism. I' think she'd do very soft drugs that she could get under the radar (her own as well as the police). She's never been critical of Sherlocks drug habit and she did have a husband killed after all. Medicinal cannabis is the obvious one, I'd say Brits are pretty tolerant of cannabis, certainly medicinally.

Where I am, Cardiff, when Torchwood was being filmed, it was highly usual for old, proper Welsh ladies, who were incredibly proud of Cardiff being on tv, to be standing at bus stops discussing very graphic sex scenes with regard to how well the Castle Arcade came off and whether the characters had taken the most efficient route through the city centre to avoid the sex crazed monster. My kids were very young then and I several times had to move them away from the conversation. British old ladies are anarchists in the main ;-)

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