to think that most on here have tried class B or A drugs at some point in their lives?

[apologies]

I'm increasingly struggling with the wisdom of prohibiting drugs and this is increased by a suspicion that far more people have taken or take drugs than are ever willing to admit it. I am thus curious as to MNetters experiences.

They are NOT Jesus. Good grief. lol

lol @ jesus, They aren't misplaced. Google Rick Simpson angel tears. Pharma companies are the devil. Are you aware of Bayers current contraversy?

Also regarding psychosis, look at this.

Cocaine and chocolate come from the same plant, both do similar things, both are addictive.

Prohibition has killed more people needlessly that the was in Iraq and Afghanistan.

All because of greedy pharma companies and ignorant governments.

Supply and demand, Drugs aren't going anywhere, people shouldn't have to die in the failed war on drugs.

Class A drugs should be regulated, Cannabis should be like tomatoes.

Cocaine and chocolate come from the same plant

Some people will believe any ole crap, rather than look it up, won't they?!

Or was I asleep when they covered coca beans in junior school

Cannabis is a bit like tomatoes, Viva. Only without the red fruit. You can smoke tomato leaves, but they're more like tobacco than cannabis.

hth

Garlic, don't the USA destroy illegal cocoa plantations in Colombia?

Stop it, Lueji!

i smoked a bit of weed when i was a teenager and quite a few years ago at a party i tried cocaine by rubbing it on my gums. i must say it was rubbish and id rather chew a strepsil it would have been cheaper.
i used to smoke but gave up when i found out i was pregnant and i don't drink very often.

Also, were you the one who reported this old lady?

Bloody hell, well my ex husband smoked wire abit of cannabis when we were togeather, after about 10 years he developed psychosis. With help he quit and has had no mh problems since (8 years)

He also had some very odd ideas at the time

Qunite abit, not wire!

I give up bloody phone, I'm not stoned honestly

The level of scientific illiteracy on this thread is astonishing.

Cocaine and chocolate are most definitely not derived from the same plant - they are a completely different genus.

Interesting graph.

Viva and Lueji -- 'cannabis should be like tomatoes'.

Had great fun at uni - experimental Es, coke, speed and smoked weed now and again.

Been years since that now, and I have stuck to my drug of choice
Wasn't ever really my scene, although was fun for a while!

Interestingly, the heavier users of weed (smoked every day, etc) have all had some brush with depression and ADs, and I am thinking about people over a broad sepctrum here. Might be anecdotal, but still.

Too tired to think about the legalisation issue, but it is an interesting debate.

"Drugs are freely available where I live and anyone who wants them can buy them."

Not where I live. If I wanted to indulge I wouldn't know who to ask or where to go.

"I am shocked that so many of you haven't ever come into any contact with them personally or through your peers."

Why? I just don't go around with people who take drugs, so I am not going to come across them. I could just as easily say that I am shocked that you know so many people who do. Drugs just aren't part of my lifestyle or that of my friends and family (except for my cousin).

TheSecondComing ahh, those Cream days were good - probably chewed your ear off in the toilets (figuratively speaking) back in the day!

Bunbaker, I don't live in a crack den, btw . I live in a well-to-do London suburb.

I wouldnt personally know where to go to get drugs now, because I dont take them, but if I did want them, it wouldnt be hard to get them, iyswim.

When I was a teenager, I could have got anything, because I dabbled with drugs and as a result I knew all the characters. I did grow up in a 'rough' area, but I went to a very good school and mixed with all sorts of people, and the vast majority of teens I knew did experiment with drugs, with a significant minority (including me) seeing it as complertely part and pracel of our music culture (I was a big time raver).

I smoked weed until I was in my early 20s (stopped when I eventually started to get paranoia), went through a couple of years of necking ecstasy and acid at the weekends, took a lot of cocaine socially (mainly when I worked in the media - massive cocaine habits going on there!) and have smoked crack and heroin (with very upper class people in amazing surroundings, not at all the stereotype of dingy squats and scabby desperados). I am not proud of my drug use, but I am not ashamed, either. It is what it is. I do think 'there but for the grace of God go I' when I think about the crack/heroin, though.

I havent taken any drug for 12 years, btw. The worst I do now is smoke a cheeky ciggie when I have had a few drinks (which isnt often).

I wasn't insinuating that you were MyName . I am probably a little naive about drugs because I genuinely do not come across them in my day to day life. I live in a village in South Yorkshire where the crime rate is very low.

I was a teenager in the 1970s when drugs were very expensive and not anything like as widely available as today, so it wasn't part of my growing up either.

I went to pick up my sd from a weekend barbecue last summer, in a small, perfectly normal, working families type estate.

All parents employed or sahms,most of the men in skilled manual trades, the women care assistants, shop assistants, all happy families, kids, mums and dads around. Fair amount of drink at the bbq, but my stepdaughter, aged 22, was giggling about the amount of cocaine being passed around.

She was a bit surprised at how open it was and as a pill popper at clubs and raves was a bit put out at how normalised the drug taking was in the next age group up from her, almost disapproving!

As an ex-counsellor and drug worker in a small south coast town, I have some experience of how much substance use is going on in very ordinary circumstances, and for how many people of all age groups and backgrounds, indulging periodically in speed or coke, let alone dope, is a slightly naughty pleasure with few apparent downsides.

i loved drugs and did them for years but went off them, started to get paranoid about ten years ago, miss it although could never do it as i don't like it, just the memory of it, was a way of life for a long time (this doesn't include heroin)

My group of friends was not even into alcohol much, not into smoking at all and no other drugs at all, as far as I know.

I have always been suspicious of some poppies my grandma had in her garden, but never tried to see if they had any effect.

I will admit that I once brought about two pounds of cocoa from Venezuela. Personal consumption only, although I think I shared some in the office.

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