To take recreational drugs in your 50s

Some people respond in really positive ways to it. I did well for a while on prescription oil with THC in it.
Not quite the same, but the drowsy effect is too much for me. I see others who have completely different responses and enjoy it, value it and their bodies respond well. I don't begrudge that of those people having my own significant pain problems.

One neighbour a few doors down started growing weed and smoking it regularly . He did have mental health challenges and had a severe mental health episode in the midst of his growing /smoking era.

The neighbour was also an alcoholic which utterly destroyed him before anything else did though.

When you don't live in areas or communities where you witness this, you don't fully appreciate what's happening.

I struggle to think of any legitimate reasons not to trial select projects of legalisation. Sadly there will always be an illegal market I imagine with the harder stuff.

It's not the belly that's the problem here though.

It's Ken's illegal bumhole.

There's an underbelly in society that a lot of people don't know exists.
It's in all area's of where we live unfortunately.

I work in the cannabis sector, and have found it to be an absolute help for joint pain and insomnia. Cannabis makes me very creative too

Sounds like a shit idea.

How would you feel if they trialled legalisation of MDMA/Ecstasy with appropriate testing capabilities in the UK?
Happy, as long as they took out out of the dealers hand/wallet.
I'm from an area where I regularly see young 14 y.o boys starting the new job, with their new bike/scooter with nice trainers, drug couriers, €20 a day.
If they get caught with the drugs, they owe the dealer, families terrorised and interest rates tripling by the day, until the payment is made, they think nothing of throwing a petrol bomb at the family home.
A young lad 14 hung himself over a 500 euro debt, he was scared to tell his mam.

Poor Bill and Toby 💩 grim

Could it, perhaps, have been a joke to wind you up?

I’m still a little confused by this… how did you come to find out about the bum smuggling?

I don't believe disliking drug taking means someone has a stick up their bum, in any way.

I find it hard to discern why there's such horror towards something like ecstacy use but not alcohol which kills people, probably daily I'm going to suggest.

How would you feel if they trialled legalisation of MDMA/Ecstasy with appropriate testing capabilities in the UK?

I'm not pro drugs to be clear.

I'm not blanket anti drugs either, particularly other people's choices,very much dependant on a good few caveats.

I'm incredibly anti our drinking culture but would never impress that on anyone. Because I know too many people who enjoy drinking socially. It would be misinterpreted.

I'm not against people taking drugs per se, but like others on the thread I object to supply chains. I have a few friends who grow their own marijuana, one who forages magic mushrooms, and one who makes her own gin, all of which I think are ethically fine.

That said, I'd never have anything that had been up a bum, and I wouldn't kiss my partner if he'd consumed bum drugs!

Again totally missing the point about the chain of supply, the evil involved and the collateral damage. Every drug taker and apologist contributes to that.

Why do you think everyone from our generation in every single region of the entire country saw that same Leah Betts video?! Because she was one of only a small minority of people who die from using ecstasy - and the only one the anti drugs campaign at the time could find! It’s by and large one of the safer drugs out there. Why weren’t we being educated about the dangers of alcohol? Because most of the kids at the time, me included, were going out every weekend and getting so drunk we could barely walk. I’ve heard of many more people dying of alcohol poisoning, becoming dependent on alcohol, and many, many young girls being assaulted because they were taken advantage of while drunk. That was what we should have been learning about. Not one person who died from taking ecstasy

The pro drugs people mock anti drugs people because they think we're naive and have a stick up our arses. In fact they're naive for failing to acknowledge the absolute hell drugs can cause. I even saw people going on about Leah Betts saying she died because of drinking too much water, not from ecstasy. Oh that's alright then? She wouldn't be drinking so much water if she wasn't taking drugs in the first place.

@BatchCookBabe it's unclear why you're so angered by this all. Unless you're having a hard time with the annoying weed heavy neighbour.

We can all accept a ' never no harm ' mentality is naive. I don't think anyone here believes that.

I don't believe, after reading the extremes of upset from certain posters, that one gives a damn about those people harmed along the way due to the drugs trade. That has nothing to do with this very strong black and white reaction. As the posts clearly reveal.

Who here thinks they're cool? Is a free thinking mentality the definition of trying to be edgy now.

The huge issue here is the fact it was up his ass. That's just the end of all of it really......💩

I think it’s an unnecessary risk. When you have a family, it’s irresponsible to do something like that when you’re older. Of course there are risks whatever your age, but your body is probably more likely to react unfavourably when you’re older.

It’s legal here. What is being suppressed?

Why couldn't it be taken right before going into the venue? 🤔

Likewise I went to Northern soul all nighters 80s through to mid 90s hardly saw any bother in 14 years, amphetamine was the drug of choice.