to want to try coke just once?

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I'm nearing a significant and have a bit of a bucket list.
This is one thing that I'm considering.
Sourcing it shouldn't be a problem.
I've tried softer drugs in my midtwenties, but am now just got a yearning to give it a go in a very controlled environment. But and a little bit concerned about the aftermath.
AIBU to be thinking like this?

I know several women my age late 40s who love to boast about wine o'clock etc and tbh they are alcoholics in denial

reading through some of the replies, strongly get the impression that some people are keen to share their experiences of drugs because they're proud in some way. ok, you did drugs - so have thousands of other people. if you took coke, had it been legal, it probably wouldn't have been allowed to legally be called cocaine under the trade descriptions act... why would you go out of your way to get high unless you found it more fun than being sober? which is why i think you have to be discontent in some way.

yes i know one or two rather lovely middle class wino's......
hate the term 'wine o'clock' for some reason.........personally i would have 'spliff o'clock' but that would go down like a sack of shit.

same with people who drink excessively, trying to escape sobriety.

and vampyre there is nothing intrinsically wrong with being slightly 'discontent' - 'content' makes me think of Ermintrude the cow chewing a flower happily.

McFox, Why should it bother you what people look or sound like when taking drugs? This is an attitude I just don't understand, why unleash your venom on people when you clearly have no experience of it? Why is it something for you to get upset about?!

I am upset because through my youth I spent many a night looking after friends with eyes rolling to the back of their heads, overheating, chewing their mouth, frothing at the mouth, talking crap,having a bad trip where they thought they were being chased by a murderer.....the list goes on.
Fast forward a few years. I am now having to deal with the very real possibility my DD will try drugs. People like you, and others on here think its okay to break the law, line the pockets of drug dealers, encourage a drug trade and encourage something that destroys lives. Look at Whitney, Amy Winehouse, George Michael, Lindsey Lohan and Britney I don't want my DD or anyone elses child to try drugs. Life is a gift that should be respected not thrown away.

your mental images are of no interest to me nigella :)

@ vampyre

I would say all my friends who dabbled in drugs in our 20s are all without exception not interested now and don't drink that much either. The drinkers are still drinkers mostly.

tbh tho' of the 'group' i fell into after uni, at least three of them are dead from heroin noddy - and yes the drinkers are still drinking AFAIK

A 16-year-old Church of England schoolboy has died after allegedly taking ecstasy at an illegal rave on an industrial site, it was revealed today.
Daniel Spargo-Mabbs, a sixth-form student in Croydon, south London, died yesterday after taking the Class A drug at the weekend.
Police were called at 4am on Saturday to the rave in Hayes, west London - 25 miles away from his home - and Daniel was taken to a hospital apparently suffering from a drugs overdose.
Two teenage men aged 18 and 19 from Croydon have been arrested for supplying controlled drugs and are being held in custody. Police said they closed the rave after attending the site.

RIP. Tragic. Another young life taken too young because of drugs.

teenmum have you any stats on teen alcohol deaths?

you do know that drugs are legal as well as illegal right?

ime alcohol can be just as bad as drugs. easily!

Why compare? They are obviously BOTH bad for you.

oooh look i found one
"Death – 5,000 people under age 21 die each year from alcohol-related car crashes, homicides, suicides, alcohol poisoning, and other injuries such as falls, burns, and drowning"
it was from here

RIP, tragic, another 5000 young lives taken too young because of drugs

A friend from uni had a stroke before he was 40 because of coke

I don't think drugs are a great idea. But I know of a lot more people who have been destroyed by alcohol than drugs.

I don't think they hysterical hand-wringing is useful.

isn't that because more people drink alcohol than take drugs though?

good point vampyre - be more interesting to see a relative comparison

It's because alcohol, as a legal substance, is therefore a more controlled industry, particularly with regards to it's production, which has not lead to the current enslavement of tens of thousands of people, many of them women and children, bloody cartel wars involving large-scale murder, etc etc.

How big of a knob do you have to be, to recommend someone uses a product that is the result of this for fun?

that is right expat, alcohol is clean and controlled and taxed while the drug industry is the wild west....
kind of a good argument for proper decriminalisation and controlled , taxed products really.
prohibition didnt work and nor does the 'war on drugs'

I do agree. Legalise, decriminalise, tax and regulate. What is going on now is incredibly destructive to millions, not to mention the environment.

All of the above about coke having lots of people's blood on it etc is true.

Small picture though: I used to do it a bit and loved it. Speed is OK and, in my day anyway, affordable where coke was an occasional treat –or you hoped someone would shout you some But speed keeps you up all night, long after you want to call it a night, feeling really weird. Coke IME wears off faster.

Why not try a legal high instead op? Go to a head shop and ask for something coke like. It will satisfy your curiosity somewhat but without all the baggage coke has.