Middle-aged professional women doing drugs on the weekend

Oh, my love.

I am an incredibly intelligent and successful person, living a very quiet life… Now.

But. Cocaine ruined my life, got me into debt, made my mental health go to shit, and just genuinely fucked everything up for me during the breaks between lockdowns. And I was closer to my 30s than my 20s. I thought I was sensible and reasonable.

Loneliness led to bad friends. One bad friend led to another. One line led to another. My love, never ever ever ever do it. It is a road to nowhere and I got out, but many did not.

I don’t think they’d be embarrassed as they wouldn’t view it as something embarrassing due to it being extremely normal behaviour in their social circles. They would probably be concerned from a privacy perspective though.

Ok I did really want to say they’re more open to having a bottle of wine each over a lunch or supper, but I know on MN that’s very much frowned upon! 😀

Not so unusual from what I've seen... Middle aged professionals (and finance bros) are the only ones who can afford cocaine these days

I am personally against it due to ethics, rather than the drug itself. Not sure I could be friends with people who don't understand or acknowledge the devastation of a drugs journey from production to trafficking to distribition.

I'm a buzz kill, I know. Lol

Actually knowing these people I think they would probably be quite embarrassed if they found out that people outside of their circle knew about this. Who wouldn’t be really? Trying to come across as all sensible, sometimes twee Mother Earth types, professionals, PTA parents - who wouldn’t be embarrassed? Otherwise they’d be more open about it surely? You’re not really going to come across as a great parent - I know I wouldn’t feel comfortable having my DC going to these particular parents houses. I doubt they’ll be snorting coke during a play date, but makes me question their parenting when they come home from a night out, send the babysitter home then sit round taking cocaine with their mates while their kids sleep upstairs. I’d say they probably would give a shit if they found out teachers and other parents knew they did that.

I genuinely don’t see it as any more or less ‘tedious’ now than in the past, or depending on the age group doing it.

@Janedoe82 no, I haven’t. But I believe this post is about people who take drugs recreationally and not addicts. Same as a post about drinking with friends isn’t about alcoholics. And people don’t respond as such.

Taken sensibly drugs are not worse than alcohol - and that has been proven time and time again. Indeed by the government’s own drugs Czar David Nutt.

I don’t care if people drink or don’t drink, take drugs or don’t take drugs. It just screams uneducated to cry about the difference when there isn’t one

I didn't know you could get marijuana flavoured vapes.

Yes, it has always been done, especially coke. Nothing new about it at all, it was rife in the 1980s and 90s.

What about the legalities of alcohol and drugs? Do you not think that is pretty relevant?

Exactly - aren't those people concerned abou the risks to their career? If DH was involved in any of that lifestyle he would lose his job straight away, we would be fucked. Me too actually.

You clearly haven’t spent much time with drug addicts.

That's interesting so many songs have Mary Jane in them from the 60s early 70s - I had no idea. I thought they were singing about a woman. Nick Drake's one springs to mind. My DD even said why do they all sing about Mary Jane - who is she?

I find it really interesting that alcohol is practically a national pastime. Yet drugs taken recreationally, which time and time again have been proven to be not as harmful, are vilified. It’s a bizarre and uneducated position to take

I think it's more that they are just bellends tbh

Stoke surely is the epicentre of great things. They have a very big Primark.

Common in the very deprived area in which I work but they are using as a coping mechanism for trauma. Not middle class professionals.
can’t fathom why anyone from the latter would want to glamorise such sad and truly harmful behaviour. I hate drugs having seen the devastation caused.

I’m sure they couldn’t give two shits.

Cheese is another street name for Monkey Dust. V popular in Stoke apparently

Suppose if they had their kids in their 20’s it’s probably a bit about reclaiming a bit of lost youth.

OP you seem more focused on their 'svelte figures' than the fact they are cokeheads or whatever they are! I'm cringing

I continue to be shocked that parents in their 40s with primary school aged children - professional people, outwardly sensible nice people - are sniffing cocaine on a weekend including back home after an evening out, taking pills when it’s a bigger night out, taking a line here and there on a random weekday night at the pub. These are parents I see at school that I would never suspect, but through mutual friends, I know a lot more about them then they realise!

You smoke cheese ?! Wow.

look up Alan Patridge sex people episode on you tube. It’s genius. Stephen Mangan at his finest. Think it’s Lynne not Elaine tho.

I'm sure there are people like this but my various social groups are not into drugs at all. One went through a phase of taking ketamine until she freaked out that it was going to ruin her bladder and stopped. We don't even drink that much these days, for more interested in cheese than anything else really.

Yes, never mind the exploited teenagers from the council estates doing all the drug running. Just relax and light another candle.