Middle-aged professional women doing drugs on the weekend

people really shouldn’t be taking alcohol either for the same reason. It costs the taxpayer millions for all the treatments for alcohol related diseases plus all the accidents, damage and deaths that are caused by alcohol. So most of the country live in a self entitled bubble it seems, supporting the alcohol industries.

The older I have got the more I realise how many people openly and regularly take drugs. The older I get the more open it seems to be.
I work for the NHS and j can't remember the last work do where it wasn't the 'norm'.

Bit shit for the kids forced into county lines gangs though. Hard to ignore the ethical issues imo.

Cheaper than mounjaro.

Canape? Good god no, I've got lockjaw.

In an area of £50k population, in a MC area, there will be about 400 children in care placements. Those are mostly due to drugs, then domestic violence and alcohol. But mostly drugs. Some of those individual placements for one dc can cost £20k a week because of the extreme trauma they endure. Drug use costs us in council tax millions. It’s phenomenal. So to pretend your little bit on the side is harmless is utter bullshit. It’s a huge, huge problem that causes those that don’t partake huge costs. To pretend you aren’t part of the problem is absurd. You live in a self entitled bubble whatever you deem your class.

@WilfredsPies Yes exactly. It is a stereotype that you are describing. You also made comments earlier that working class middle aged people don’t brag about taking drugs at the weekend. Which isn’t true.and which you seem to have forgotten you said. I’m not offended, I just thought your post was angry and silly and presumptuous.

What's Mary Jane

🤦‍♀️ Again, I’m attacking the behaviour, not the class. I said ‘You’ve completely ignored the bits about decriminalisation or legalisation of drugs and have chosen to be offended on behalf of a group of people you claim you wouldn’t choose to associate with’ meaning people who take drugs. Who even mentioned anything about you not associating with middle class people? You are so determined to be offended that you’re not digesting what I’ve actually said.

It’s all the irrelevant generalisations you made such as “thinking you’re all so liberal and socially aware” How do you know what people are thinking ? Not all drug users are liberal or claim to be socially aware. It is a pretty accurate stereotype of the sort of people who act like their shit doesn’t smell, before shovelling coke up their noses with their professional friends though, don’t you think?

I also find it quite interesting that you’ve jumped on my post to criticise it and chosen to ignore the 16 separate posters who made references to the middle classes before my post. Was it my swearing that bothered you? Did I offend your sensibilities?

The thing is someone who gets pregnant at 15 and becomes a mum at 16 is likely to be as vulnerable as the kids who get mixed up in county lines, they just don't realise it. The difference between the 16 year old mum and the county lines teens is that it isn't a crime to be a young mum and there is financial support and help once they find themselves in that situation. Often the county lines kids are sucked in at a young age before they've even realised what's happening, and once they realise the path they're on, then they're in way over their heads with threats to family and themselves, that it's very difficult to get out. It becomes their life. There is no financial help and they feel there is nowhere to turn - they feel it's a hopeless situation.

Years ago a pregnant 15 year old might have had a backstreet abortion, or been sent away to a home for unmarried pregnant girls and been subject to forced adoption. They might have felt hopeless too.

@WilfredsPies It’s all the irrelevant generalisations you made such as “thinking you’re all so liberal and socially aware” How do you know what people are thinking ? Not all drug users are liberal or claim to be socially aware.

@WilfredsPies What ? I didn’t say I don’t associate with middle class people. I meant I wouldn’t associate with people who “bragged” about taking drugs. I would find that boring and tiresome , regardless of their class.

You think I’m attacking the class rather than the behaviour? Did you actually read what I wrote? Or did you get halfway through the first sentence and decide you couldn’t be bothered to go any further?

You risk having your dc taken away if you do coke, ketamine, weed etc. They can tell months, years later from hair strand testing. Just takes one word from a friend, neighbour, dealer, your own dc, school if they suspect. But the saddest thing I think is having your parent drop dead suddenly from using coke. It’s shameful, embarrassing, there’s a stoney silence. No flowers, donations, no colleagues at the funeral. People distance themselves. They aren’t remembered for all the good they did, it’s horrible for those left behind.

Yep. Hate them. They’re all bastards, every single last one of them. Up the workers ✊

Four paragraphs. All relevant to the thread and, in my opinion and experience, fairly accurate. You’ve completely ignored the bits about decriminalisation or legalisation of drugs and have chosen to be offended on behalf of a group of people you claim you wouldn’t choose to associate with. If you have nothing more useful to contribute in response than offence, then I’ll be honest; I do not care that you are offended and cannot be arsed to correct your assumptions. People who take drugs at dinner parties while acting as though they are beyond reproach the rest of the time are hypocritical arseholes.

One of my ex colleagues just died, she was only 53 and as a vulnerable lady with schizophrenia, was being cuckoo'ed by a drugs gang who made out they were her mates. She was heavily using their cannabis herself which made her psychosis worse. Sadly no one could help because she wouldn't allow it & was deemed to 'have capacity'.

This is the reality of where your middle class drugs come from.

And those who misbehave do so because they have don’t have to worry about the consequences because they have money.

Ah, now this is an interesting development. The respectable mothers, the career women, the PTA veterans swapping Sauvignon Blanc for something with a little more… kick. Some might clutch their pearls, but let’s be honest: this isn’t new. The only thing that’s changed is the lighting. What once happened in dimly lit clubs, behind velvet ropes, now unfolds over granite countertops in suburban kitchens.

You see, power is not just about status, wealth, or influence. It’s also about freedom the freedom to indulge, to break the rules, to dance along the edges of excess without consequence. For years, this kind of behavior was the domain of rock stars, Wall Street wolves, and reckless youth. But now? The middle-aged professional woman has carved out her own space. She’s spent decades playing by the rules career, family, responsibility and now she’s realized something that men in boardrooms have always known: the game is rigged, so why not write your own rules?

The real question isn’t why they’re doing it. It’s why now? Maybe it’s rebellion. Maybe it’s escape. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s the realization that control over one’s life isn’t just about respectability it’s about indulgence, too. And as long as they keep their families intact, their careers afloat, and their reputations spotless, who’s really going to stop them? Society turns a blind eye to power when it’s wielded discreetly.

So no, you’re not out of touch. You’ve simply witnessed a demographic wake up to an old truth: The real privilege in this world isn’t money. It’s the ability to misbehave…

Agreed. The poster seems to think attacking a whole swathe of people based on their perceived class is somehow ok. It’s gross

You sound like you have a serious chip on your shoulder about middle class people.

I work in social services. It’s a massive, expensive, traumatic problem, if you legalise weed most won’t secretly use edibles.

I’m not talking about legalising or decriminalising weed. I’m talking about Class A. I do have concerns about the impact on mental health, and the increase in use by young children (as do Ecuador & Thailand) and, currently, the impact on young men trafficked and locked into houses to care for the plants. But I think that the medical benefits of marijuana should be researched far more thoroughly and be made far more available to people who need it.

You seem to talking about drug addiction and not casual use.

That’s like comparing weekend wine drinkers with alcoholics.

Of course any kind of addict isn’t a good parent, and I don’t know anyone who smokes indoors.
Many take edibles like me.

So is the argument it shouldn’t be legal because some might become addicts?

Should we ban alcohol? Junk food? Those things are also addictive.

Because it’s shit to live in a house that stinks of weed with stoned parents as a dc. Let’s face it most people would look down on you and avoid you as a dc. You can’t be getting an emotionally present parent who puts your needs first.,

I’ll be honest although I don’t do drugs. I know a lot of people in their 50’s who do and I’m surprised how common it is among that age group.

I will say that I do go to a lot of dance music events which possibly means there’s a higher number of people who’ve taken drugs for years but I’d say from my extended circle, around 75% probably take pills on a night out.

No one brags about it though and I’d say it’s fine reasonably discreetly in most cases.

Of course not. Drug abuse invades every walk of life, obviously. But the thread title is ‘middle added professional women doing drugs on the weekend’. Nothing you’ve said makes me doubt or want to change anything I’ve said.