Middle-aged professional women doing drugs on the weekend

Modern slavery is rife in UK cannabis production.
www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/six-people-convicted-modern-slavery

Don’t apologise @PickledKT You obviously mean well.

You are totally right. I apologise if I have caused any upset. I didn't mean any harm and my comments are not malicious - I didn't mean to bang on about anything and you are correct 100% I shouldn't be using The Jasmine Picking industry to excuse my post and my actions - again I am sorry if it seemed like I was showing off - I just posted being honest as the OP asked if this sort of thing happens in our middle age - again I do not have any children or dependents

Exactly this. It’s no good supporting local farmers and buying fair trade bananas and chocolate all week then snorting coke at the weekend! Massive hypocrisy

Are you still going on about Jasmine @PickledKT? no matter how much you bang on about this, it doesn’t change the fact you are propping up an industry which is based on exploitation and violence.

Yes! Pablo Escobar was so fucked up. Do you remember the bombings and all the people he killed because he didn't get his own way! Scary business! Especially back then - no one has ever come close to what atrocities he committed and will be felt by many for centuries!

I was responding to OPs post in regards to "she still had a good night" and to be clear I was not in anyway promoting "sitting around doing coke"

I can see how my post may have sounded really immature for a 37 year old and I have had more people in this post say to me how stupid I sound - rather than people who enjoy that sort of thing - who do it respectfully and responsibly.

i have been very used to being around people in the last 20 years doing this for years in a social situation

if you want to see a real problem check out Jasmin Pickers for all the perfumes in the world!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6r8y

Can I suggest you watch the NARCOS series' on Netflix, it might make you think twice about the industry you're supporting.

I’m clearly doing something wrong if they have the energy to do drugs and still parent. I couldn’t parent my out of a paper bag after 3 glasses of wine let alone drugs.

I do know a lot of parents smoke weed once the kids are in bed though.

Having been in middle-class circles all
my life, I have not encountered this other than when at university in the 90s. And I am now 55 and our kids have left home. Nobody even drinks much any more. OP, we clearly have very different friends!

This is very common/normal BUT most that I know of are using natural products such as mushrooms or cannabis and are not involved in drug purchase at all.

I grow my own. That way I can ensure it’s all natural, all organic and of a strain that isn’t too strong or full of the harmful properties that are more likely to induce psychosis related issues

And do you grow it yourself?

Or do you buy from a dealer where some poor sod has been trafficked into the UK and locked in a building for a couple of years to care for one crop rotation after another?

You can get fair trade avocados though

Have a wild guess.

Actually Person A: is arguing drugs are bad because of the violence of the supply chain

Person B: is pointing out the same cartel links to avocados.

So you are fine with kids being hurt as long as they aren’t local kids?

You won’t end up with a conviction simply from being around people taking drugs.

Yes I think most of us have seen and enjoyed that scene @Icanttakethisanymore

For anyone who is wondering (like me!) -

The “Drug industry” supply chain is evil, destroying communities, families and individuals. They are the reason for much knife and gun crime not to mention the sideline industries such as prostitution, people trafficking
I accept alcohol is horrendous to get addicted to, the Australian, French, South African, Californian and many other wine producers are not the evil drug cartels that promote junkies
Middle class dinner party guests consuming drugs are allowing these cartels to thrive. But hey it’s “cool”, not so cool when the magistrate is lenient on his/her drug supplier in court or when the geography teacher decides to have a quick line during break time and is caught by pupils.

That's just not true

None of my middle aged friends do it but I know it's popular with some of the local 20/30 year olds.

No it isn’t. It’s ridiculous to suggest it is.

I find it incredibly sad that anyone would want to take something that not only is illegal, something people seem to forget but a substance that can cause such devastation in such a frivolous way. Like can you not have fun without it? Really? Do you lack such a personality that you need to resort to chemically changing your brain?
and yes I am aware that alcohol is also harmful and I again find it sad when grown adults feel the need to abuse that to such extreme in order to “have fun”.
Honestly I would find new friends. Like others have said do they not have jobs that would be at risk by engaging in that behaviour?

Or using a smartphone or electric car…those minerals are not mined ethically