Middle-aged professional women doing drugs on the weekend

If we're heading in the ethical direction presumably buying from Primark or Shein et al in terms of child labour and exploitation is just as problematic.

I don't know anyone doing this shizzle anymore and i work in music ! Most I've seen is a few occasional spliffs , too much alcohol ( still popular) and someone who I was managing clearly taking coke a fair bit in her 30s - she couldn't hack it and ended up a right aggressive mess before going cold turkey and quitting any drugs

No this is not normal but could be quite widespread. People who do this have no morals or decency because of the harm and misery the drug supply chain causes. I feel sorry for these lost souls

I think it’s normal in a lot of circles. I personally don’t touch the uppers anymore as the lows after just aren’t worth it. I and many of my friends quite happily partake in cannabis. We understand the strains and the different effects, and only consume enough to have a lighthearted evening the same as those who like a couple of glasses but don’t drink to excess. There is no hangover and no issues with additional calorie intake (unless you hit the chocolate drawer,) and we are all likeminded. This country is one of the last to legalise and I personally don’t think it will be long until it is.

Well the point is its no different to all the posters who act like a middle aged woman occasionally partaking in drugs on a weekend is anything other than a drop in the ocean of demand for the drug market next to heroin addicts scoring multiple times a day. You really think the drug trade will disappear just because you guilt tripped a couple of middle aged woman on Mumsnet?

Its more the ageism for me why do many here think it's fine for a young person to do drugs but unacceptable for anyone middle aged? You're either for or against drugs right.
Me personally I've never done drugs, but then I became a mum at 15 so never had time, maybe when the kids are grown up and I'm middle aged I'll go a bit wild haha probably not but if I do so what?

Why don't the virtue signallers on here all get together to help all the apparently sweet innocent teen boys who got tricked into selling drugs and have no idea what they're actually doing. 😂 See how that goes

Well Partridged !

Kids in Liverpool aren’t getting shot over Jasmin, but crack on with your dinner party fun.

Person A: Murdering people is bad!

Person B: Yet you yourself partake in crime by eating avocados 😏

I’m not a middle aged woman, but as a man I don’t think that is commonly done or acceptable. None of my friends do that!

id find another set of friends. You could end up with traces of the stuff on you, it’s illegal and you could in the worst case could end up with some kind of career ended conviction. Not to mention the lives ruined by drugs.

I’m not a policeman btw. My vice is getting rather drunk occasionally (happy drunk 🥴) .

its not big, it’s not clever! (Yes I’m a parent of 3) lol

Yeah. We know. Self important, self indulgent shit. We've all been on the wrong end of some coked up motormouth holding court at some point. I guess you think it's enormous fun and 'if you can't beam 'em, join 'em.'

Well thanks, I'll pass, but you knock yourself out.

Has anyone in the anti-drug camp eaten an avocado recently?

https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/mexicos-avocado-boom-and-organized-crime/

Just some food for thought…

Drugs are illegal. Alcohol is not. There is the line. Whether you are taking or supplying drugs you are breaking the law however you justify it. My Ds (early 20’s) rents a house in a dodgy area -next door to a drugs dealer. He sees the middle class mums and dads turn up in their expensive cars to get their supplies for the weekend. He thinks it’s ridiculous.

I know. Just because you're over 5O you don't have to act like you're practising being in a nursing home.

I don’t take drugs or drink (hardly ever) nowadays.

If someone was getting sloppy and messy, can see how that’s unappealing. But if people are just enjoying themselves and dabbling a bit at weekends with friends – I don’t know, whatever. They’re probably having fun.

Many drugs may not have ethical supply chains, but then neither do iPhones. If you’re vocal about one, be equally vocal about the other, or you’re just a hypocrite picking something you dislike anyway to virtue signal about.

Are you aware of Supply chain of Jasmin - Yes The Flower - that is used manufacture every perfume out there? ITS horrific, probably worse than "snow" here's a link below with the documentary about it

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

But yes Absolutely! The entire supply chain is corrupt and dangerous. I don't think about this to be honest - this applies to all recreational drugs - just like perfume - if it's good I will invest in it

please bear in mind also - I only engage in this a few times a year and unlike some people I don't do it around children

I don’t think taking drugs is anything to be proud of. But neither is boasting about how boring you are after a certain age and how you are in bed at 9pm every night past a certain age. As many people are doing on this thread.

Have never come across this.

@PickledKT

My husband is 50 and I am 37 - we are having a dinner party this weekend and we have "snow" for pudding 🙌🤩

This is a genuine question. Does the supply chain really not bother you? Have you read about county lines? It's about one step removed from whoever you buy your coke from. I'd be really interested about your thoughts on it.

Believe me,the saddest thing I see is 60yr old coke addicts arriving in ED. It's not a good look.

Stick to tea, great anytime, not just for afternoons 😃.

With some of my friends it happens!

House parties we all drink and vape. Kids around primary age.

They tell me when they go to others houses they get out coke sometimes when kids are in bed! Late 30’s early 40’s middle class.

I don’t partake in the coke! Would smoke weed now and then but not at a party as it would make me tired!

A house party is not drinking tea and eating cake, that's afternoon tea in the evening or a few people eating cake and drinking tea in the same room, As happens when visiting family.

If alcohol had been discovered in the West only within the last 500 years, I expect it would be a banned substance. We have lived with it for thousands of years to an extent greater than any other drug.

I can resist everything but temptation 🥴🥴🥴

yer but, wine is soooo nice🤪

Absolutely. I agree. Alcohol destroys families and ruins lives. It should be listed with any other drug, as such.