Middle-aged professional women doing drugs on the weekend

Completely agree.

😂

We live in an affluent commuter town, and although we're not in the local party scene, I am told it's very common here among those who are. These are professional women and the stay-at-home wives are business owners, who mostly still have primary or very young secondary aged children.

This reminds me of an episode of Frasier called "High Holidays" Niles decides to try a pot brownie for the first time in his life. He uses what he thinks is all the current drugs lingo, as if he's street wise, it's really very funny.

If they're middle aged now, then they may well be ex-ravers. There were millions of ravers in the 1990s and 2000s.

For many it was a way of life, not just something you did occasionally.

Not surprising some of them still do it in a party environment.

Personally I haven't taken drugs for decades but only as I was pregnant or breastfeeding my DC for over a decade so I stopped completely and aI moved towns and have no idea where to get decent drugs in this town!

Now the DC are older, I wouldn't mind a bit of MDMA if I was offered some.

Do you all know it was designed to be a therapeutic tool, useful for counselling & especially couples therapy? It increases a feeling of empathy with others, it's really quite lovely.l IMO.

Coke, now that's another story entirely. It was taboo on large parts of the rave scene back in the day (as was heroin) as we wanted happy, psychedelics and stuff that would keep us in a party mood and dancing for hours, not addictions. (To be fair that wasn't the same in all scenes and it was more prevalent in later years, but for a long time in large parts of the rave scene it just wasn't a thing).

Coke is extremely addictive, potentially life destroying and a shit drug IMO, it turns groups of people on it into wankers. I'd give a group of people doing loads of coke a swerve tbh.

But MDMA and weed every so often? No big deal as long as it isn't being done around DC IMO.

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Nobody I know is doing this, but I’m usually asleep by 8! Seems a bad idea to me.

And to be fair you don’t often see a fat drug addicted so not that unusual.

The outrage on here is hilarious!
Particularly the horrified gangs who run the drug trade. Are they horrified that they are a gang, or that they are a drugs gang?

Snap, and buying caffeine free Diet Coke!

I'm open to legalisation although unless absolutely everything is legalised there will always be a problem with illegal trade.

However, regardless of the arguments over legalisation and the relative damage done by drugs vs alcohol, drugs are not legal and their use perpetuates drug violence and county lines. The answer to the point about the problematic supply chain is not for people to carry on taking them and shrug and say it's not their fault they're not legal.

What kind of weirdo takes E at a dinner party?

These people make me sick.
Because somewhere down the line there are young people involved in selling drugs, often county lines, who are subjected to violence and control.
They are also funding horrified gangs who run the drug trade in the UK.
I am sure these mothers would have been horrified at the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, but are siting in their lovely homes removed from the problem.

Controversial for me is having 2 biscuits instead of one.. I'm bad ... I know 🤣🤣🤣
Ok i lied... its usually 3 🤦‍♀️🤣

Mary-Jane? Have you just watched a 1970s film?

What's snow? Cocaine?

Presumably these people never stopped since the 90s

I have some friends like that

Pathetic. And they are supporting the dealers/gangs who exploit some of the most vulnerable in our communities. Including children.

i would walk out.

In the essay "Prof. Veblen" (1919) the intellectual H. L. Mencken addressed the matters of Americans' social psychology reported in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), by asking:

"Do I enjoy a decent bath because I know that John Smith cannot afford one—or because I delight in being clean? Do I admire Beethoven's Fifth Symphony because it is incomprehensible to Congressmen and Methodists—or because I genuinely love music? Do I prefer terrapin à la Maryland to fried liver, because plowhands must put up with the liver—or because the terrapin is intrinsically a more charming dose?"

(people arent taking drugs because they want to look cool, they are taking drugs because drugs are fun)

Living life on the edge, you are.

This. Having worked with exploited children, 100% agree.
Might all seem like harmless fun, when you're snorting a line up your middle class nose, but pay some thought to how that powder got to you.
Probably the same people fretting that their chicken might be factory raised or their egg isn't free range.

I’m shocked at middle class and middle aged professional having adult children. Most people in that group have children late 30s and 40s.

Yes exactly, once organised crime has got hold of an illegal drugs trade, there is no way to remove them from it by legalisation. Thats why the Mafia still controls all the post-prohibition alcohol trade in America and why its impossible to buy wine unless you personally know Al Capone.

no, wait

Same here. Everyone has fun and lets loose a bit and then goes back to their normal and successful lives - until the next time.

People are stressed. They want a release.