To take recreational drugs in your 50s

I used to take a lot of mdna. I never had a comedown ever it's a sociable drug and makes the world a little bit happier for a while if they put some on the water instead of flouride there would be no war or division

This thread is making me chuckle… it’s reminding me of the scene from AbFab where Saffy and her friend are at Uni and going on about all the other students drinking and smoking weed.

Funny my DH can’t wait to retire and try weed for the first time. Never did it as a teen or young adult, then got a job with regular drug tests. So he’ll be trying it for the first time in his 50s. It’s legal where I am so no ethical issues!

Sorry, are you addressing me? You seem confused.

Who does drugs?

Who thinks drugs are cool?

And do that matter; who is in the UK?

I'll tell you what IS cool however; those emojis you littered your post with. Now that is edgy...

Isn't there a whole thing on overdosing on mdma? Or maybe drinking too much water and dieing

I judge anyone doing any type of illegal drug - they are directly causing the destruction of other young people’s (teens more often than most) lives. If they want to destroy their own kids lives that’s fine, they should stop f-ing up other people’s.

Exactly. It's hilarious how some people think they're so cool, and worldy wise, and 'edgy' because they 'do drugs.' How embarrassing. 😬 They sound about 16.

By the way @Aworldofwonder I have travelled to about 2 dozen different countries (over 5 continents) during my lifetime. A few with work, some with family, a few with friends, some with DH, a few alone.

I will bet my house that YOU have never left the UK though. 😆

What is your qualification? No drug is safe.

If you are connected to the tech industry: famously and notoriously, yes.

Are they though? 🤔

Actually a good percentage Silicon Valley are doing recreational drugs. Many of highest intelligence/‘brightest bulbs’.

I voted yabu because you didn’t give any information about who these people are in relation to you and how their behaviour affects you? Or are they just strangers on the internet?

These things creep up on you. One minute you're in a bath at a house party, the next you're fishing a hatchback and 500kg of cocaine from your rectum.

You've lost me.

Wouldn't inside their sock have the same effect and less revolting...?!

Misses the point...

Well aren't you the cool girl.

We had a house party years ago and basically said to one friend not to bring person X who is drug nob head so instead they turned up with drug nob head Y 🙄 who we barely know. (Presumably because they were so desperate to smoke) They all took themselves off the the bathroom and stood in the bath tub to smoke 🤦🏼‍♀️ it was pretty obvious because of all the muddy footprints in the bath tub. Ironically if it’s just weed I actually don’t care too much about how people want to spend their time but, like lots of things in life, its quite hard for people not to get addicted or to recognise they are addicted because they can still function day to day. It does change behaviour though. Acting out of sync is an accurate description. If they had been upfront they could have just used our balcony, but instead they snuck around behaving like teens and I had to clean a bath tub for no reason.

Nowadays it does all seem a bit unethical with what a terrible impact the drug trade has on communities.

I used to take drugs and I used to get drunk, I matured out of both. Getting wrecked on any substance as one gets older is embarrassing and pathetic.

For all those saying they'd never do drugs due to the supply chain : I hope you never drink Guinness. Not only do they traffic those leprechauns, they make them ride horses.

This exactly.

Drugs that have been up someone's arse? Never OK

And how do you chemically test it to check it hasn’t been laced? It’s hardly an FDA approved controlled substance is it? Unless you are a chemist and make it yourself

And how is one supposed to tell the difference at the point you are taking it?
What a ridiculous comment.

Yes! It's diabolical but you can believe it really when we take a closer look

They hired him as the drugs Czar because of his expertise then sacked him when his conclusions showed almost all drugs were safer than alcohol.