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to want to try coke just once?

532 replies

CentreParting · 20/01/2014 22:37

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?

OP posts:
AnyFucker · 21/01/2014 23:24

My point is the insensitivity of the back slappers on this thread. I don't actually wish to have a debate about the legalisation of drugs right now, I shall leave that to others who can do it much better than I can.

AmberLeaf · 21/01/2014 23:24

Agree thepobble

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 21/01/2014 23:25

drugs aren't only dangerous because they can kill you... they can also cause or exacerbate serious mental health issues Hmm

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 21/01/2014 23:26

(i include alcohol in that)

AnyFucker · 21/01/2014 23:26

You know what, I think I would rather ask the lady who lost her son to drugs if she has been upset by (some) insensitive posters on this thread. My sympathies lie with her and not the platform-jumpers, strangely enough.

thepobblewhohasnotoes · 21/01/2014 23:26

Anyfucker, drug taking is a part of UK culture and society, whether you like it or not. For many, many of us it was a part of our life, it was normal to us. I do not appreciate you trying to silence me. It was an important part of my life. It isn't now, but sometime I do like to look back. And why not? Do you not look back to your 20s and teens sometimes? Did you not ever do slightly reckless things when young?

Even the British Citizenship test had a question about how many people took drugs in the UK. (An odd choice of question I thought!) It was pretty high too (no pun intended!) I forget what now, I'll see if it googles ...

McFox · 21/01/2014 23:27

To be honest, the people like myself who have had the balls to say that they have taken and enjoyed drugs - and those of you who have PMd me to congratulate me on speaking sense - have come out of this thread this with a lot more dignity then some of the anti-drugs brigade who seem to feel that it's ok to call people who disagree with them names.

Calling people "fuckwitted oversharers" and the like really doesn't do much for your position, it kind of undermines your attempts to take the moral high ground.

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 21/01/2014 23:28

why are you describing it as reckless pobble i thought it was absolutely fine...

BeCool · 21/01/2014 23:29

YANBU to want to try it - you aren't going to turn into a drug addict or anything. As for "controlled environment" a party would be more fun.

Be prepared to:
A - turn into a self obsessed chatty bore and
B - be disappointed, and
C - feel wretched the next day and possibly get a bout of sinusitis

It really is a highly over rated drug. Oh you are aware that your ££ will be funding serious criminality aren't you?

Mitchy1nge · 21/01/2014 23:29

to be fair vampyre the same can be said of many prescription medications

you asked why it was fun, I think MDMA just is (am a bit scared of pills, referring to the crystally stuff) - especially at a nice safe event with friendly security and good music, everyone in a happy childlike state, throwing their bodies around

there are reasons, obviously, why researchers are looking into the role of some of these drugs into the treatment of PTSD for example

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 21/01/2014 23:30

it doesn't take balls to admit you enjoyed drugs... i imagine most people who have, have enjoyed the high. still doesn't make it clever to suggest doing them is a great idea.

Mitchy1nge · 21/01/2014 23:31

mdma assisted psychotherapy for example

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 21/01/2014 23:31

and why, in that situation, would NOT being on mdma be fun?

cardamomginger · 21/01/2014 23:31

YANBU for wanting to in a rebel kind of way. YWBU if you actually did it.

It is really bad for you - even once can be really bad.
It is really illegal - the potential consequences are dire.
And people on coke talk shit, act like wankers and don't want to go to sleep, so they spend even longer talking shit and acting like wankers.

You don't want 'being an insomniac who talks shit and acts like a wanker' on your bucket list, do you? No.

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 21/01/2014 23:32

i meant not being on mdma not be fun. it's late.

McFox · 21/01/2014 23:33

If clearly does, as 3 of the PMs I've had today have been from posters who said that they wouldn't admit it, but that they appreciated comments i made.

Mitchy1nge · 21/01/2014 23:34

you'd get tired much sooner and have to go home early and miss out? it's a collective buzz as well as an individual one isn't it

I would volunteer to try and see how it compares but I know the music wouldn't sound as good

cardamomginger · 21/01/2014 23:34

And good point about it funding seriously violent criminal behaviour. I saw the film Maria Full of Grace, which is all about young women acting as drug mules. Very upsetting. Drugs inevitably and unavoidably involve such behaviour.

GlitzAndGiggles · 21/01/2014 23:34

Speed is better and ecstasy so I've heard Wink

thepobblewhohasnotoes · 21/01/2014 23:34

The amount of drugs I took in my early 20s was most definitely reckless, as was the amount of alcohol I drank.

The way I would take drugs now, were I to do it (and haven't for many years as Bfing) would not be reckless.

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 21/01/2014 23:35

ok...

Mitchy1nge · 21/01/2014 23:35

also am getting a bit old for that sort of thing now

thepobblewhohasnotoes · 21/01/2014 23:35

Sorry, that was to VampyreofTimeandMemory

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 21/01/2014 23:36

right. so the best thing about mdma is that it keeps you awake.

Mitchy1nge · 21/01/2014 23:38

I know it's not a competition but I do think alcohol is worse, obviously vastly more people use it but am not sure that alone explains the horrifying volume of deaths in which it is implicated

but generally, does cocaine bring anything of value to anyone's lives? I can't see that it has, at all

I do like shrooms though Blush

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