Coke is pointless

[Whatajokr]

I'm late 40s. On Saturday I had 3 lines of coke over the space of 2 hours. First time in my life I've ever had drugs.

It did absolutely nothing for me. Pointless waste of time and money.

My friend, who takes it recreationally every few months, asked if I could feel the buzz, or the energy it gave me. Nope.

Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

I'll be sticking to alcohol as my drug of choice. Why people waste their money on that stuff I'll never know.

You just never know with drugs do you.
Sound like an 80s advert but you think you're in control then your not.x

Lol, this is basically it.

Coke = ok
A BMI higher than 20 = how dare you!

Stick with alcohol.
I can go to a bar, have a great night, be put in a taxi and won’t remember a thing about it the next day.
Bliss.
😉😁😁😁😁😁

First time snorter, 3 lines and it did nothing? Seems to me you had coke zero.

I'm the same OP, I tried it a few times years ago and I felt nothing.

I'm intrigued about the adhd thing, I'm pretty sure I have adhd.

When I watched the TV drama Narcos about the early days of the cocaine era , it struck me how many people - police, drug enforcement agents, criminals included, needn’t have been killed and how much time and money would have been saved if the US hadn’t made it illegal and instead just slapped a tax on it like they do with alcohol and cigarettes. I mean it’s not like all that policing actually stopped the drug trade anyway. Never did anything for me either personally

If you took 3 lines of top kitchen stuff you must have felt something.

The top notch stuff keeps people awake for days.

Agreed, haven't done it for ages, and always thought it was greatly overrated. I think it affects different people differently, and some certainly do get much more from it.

On the rare occasions that we use drugs now it's not cocaine. (Not big drinkers either.)

There was quite an authoritative study about ten years ago by David Nutt, looking at her different harms caused by different drugs. They separated out harm to the user and harm to others.
Alcohol caused far more social harm than cocaine. (The red bar is harm caused to others.)

PDF here

Alcohol caused far more social harm than cocaine

Social harms in the UK. Not in any drug producing countries. I bet that report would be a bit different if he looked at Columbia or Mexico.

This is utter nonsense.

I assume you are basing it on 23KG of cocaine being snorted in the UK per day vs 23,000 people in Columbia dying as a result of the drug trade per year.

This conveniently ignores two facts. Firstly, a day is different to a year and secondly, Columbia supplies to more than just the UK (also, not all cocaine supplied to the UK comes from Columbia).

Well that’s ok then! 🍪

OK for PearlClutzsche to just make stats up?

Avacados.

I didn’t make anything up. I have read about this from many sources. Nor did I say all coke came from Columbia, or that Columbia only supplies the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/13/drugsandalcohol.colombia

I think you're right, but the idea that harms caused by the supply chain can be prevented by using persuasive outcome-based ethical arguments to the users and/or strongly admonishing them on Mumsnet is not very realistic.

If you actually want to put a stop to that then you need an entirely different approach to drugs, probably to regulate the supply chain.

Apologies. You clearly didn’t make the stat up. The Guardian clearly did, however. It is 18 years old but is and always was obviously and demonstrably incorrect. I only checked it because it was so obviously incorrect from a common-sense perspective. I note that the Guardian offers zero statistical back-up to its ludicrous claim.

Here is a far more credible article which demonstrates that another claim of 6 deaths per kilo is hugely over-exaggerated. And that figure is 166 times the exaggerated figure from the Guardian.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37717848

I have a lot of time for David Nutt usually, but that chart is ridiculous. No way is that showing the true extent of the harms done to others by cocaine and heroin.

That’s an interesting article, @ThePuma, and yes, clearly Anthony Barnett was confused about figures, but the BBC article starts out by talking about ‘deaths’, and seamlessly morphs this into ‘murders’. Many more will be dying as a result of the drugs trade than those murdered in connection with their direct involvement.

KILO by Toby muse gives a good insight to the cocaine industry from leaf, powder to end user.

Why do you need a buzz like that? Is going out with your friends not enough?! I say this as a friend of someone who died after taking cocaine (not an addict, they just thought it would be a laugh. It wasn't).