To ask what are your opinions on social cocaine use?

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I am finding that it is becoming more acceptable to use cocaine socially.

Friends and people that I know take it at weekends, at parties, bars or clubs and sometimes on a night in with friends and a bottle of wine.

These people are teachers, sahms, childcare workers, administrators, financial advisors and social workers so a real mix.

Is it becoming more socially acceptable? Would you have a problem if your friend did it occasionally?

Yes thats Jason, well done.

"I could show you pictures of ten more people who have taken it once, twice or occasionally every few months."

you said you could show me a picture.

Why won't you?

I want to see a picture of Jason.

Come on OP. Be fair.

A bit sad and pathetic really, I did my fair share of 'experimenting' when I was younger, but I pretty quickly realised that the people who use drugs like that are usually a bunch of try-hards and losers.

If you found out your bottle of Sancerre was supporting an industry which funded crime would you still continue to drink the stuff?

Have you been taking coke yourself? You seem rather immature.

I want to see ten pictures

you said you had ten pictures.

Are you saying you can't show me ten pictures? :(

"Have you been taking coke yourself? You seem rather immature."

is that what people who take Coke are? Immature?

For all you know I could be a 50 something living in Devon or Dorset.

I am not getting into a back and forth with you. Get on with it by yourself.

Not acceptable to me, I'm not aware of any of my friends taking it (not that I know for sure) but I would avoid them if I knew they did. I am very anti drugs full stop.

"Is it becoming more socially acceptable? "

Don't know anyone who does it, so can't properly comment on this.

"Would you have a problem if your friend did it occasionally?"

Yes I would, I'd think they were a total fanny.

I don't think cocaine use is becoming socially acceptable. I do see it a lot on the Manchester club scene but just because a lot of idiots in one place kid themselves into thinking coke makes them awesome (spoiler, it doesn't) doesn't mean everyone else agrees with or condones it.

I also don't believe that weed is as harmless as everyone likes to make out - it's totally destroyed the life of my cousin who now has no motivation except to get stoned.

Not acceptable to me either. I know of no friends who use it, and would reconsider them if I was aware that they did. I must have led quite a sheltered life as I have never come across anyone in my social circles who has admitted to dabbling in cocaine.

Aw.

Jason sounds like a real catch though...

It's exploded in the 20-30 generation (I'm at the upper edge of that range). Most of my peers when I was 20 were happy to smoke weed, if they were into the drug thing, but stayed away from cocaine because A: it was expensive B: It can turn you into a bit of an arrogant nob and C: Only rich toffs and banksters used the stuff and they were hardly the sort of people we wished to emulate.

Now it seems that almost all the 20-25 girls in my office snort it on occasional weekends. Surprising, but hey - whatevs (to quote).

neofaust, recent research suggests that's not true. obviously it is for your office, but UK-wide it's not the case. drug and alcohol use is reducing among teenagers and those in their 20s, and increasing among those in their 30s+

As do you after seeing the lovely pics and info on your profile :)

someone who first took it 4 months ago and hasn't taken it since is not quite YET a once off user… lets see a few more months down the line

I work in TV and theatre. If only you knew some of the big well known names who turn up to early rehearsals in the studio with a white crust round their nostrils, talking nineteen to the dozen.
If only their fans realised.....
And as for some of the awards ceremonies - you couldn't get in the cubicles to have a pee, full of groups snorting lines from the top of the cistern.
I think it is a lot more widespread than people realise. When you know the signs, it is so easy to tell who has just powdered their nose in the toilets.
I know plenty who can take it or leave it. I also know many who can't just have one alcoholic drink, and have to have a vodka with their cornflakes. I judge neither.

Just joining this debate. I believe it has become more socially widespread anyway. Someone made a comment about a 50-year-old in Devon not taking it. I used to live in Devon -a fishing port and holiday resort which may explain things - and the town was rife with it . I saw drug deals outside our local pub and lots of people regularly taking it. I don't really know about hard drugs. It was all hash in the 90's in my wilder days, but any slight tinge of glamour that coke had in my mind was gone when the local 60-year-old fishermen discussed the quality of their most recent purchase in a Devon accent.

And for all of you defending your comments and judgement of those who use drugs by mentioning the misery that is caused to others in the supply chain, I do hope you never shop in the high street chain for your clothes, or use an iPhone iPad.
uk.news.yahoo.com/iphone-6-factory-china-sees-spate-cancer-deaths-152944956.html

well people have to get dressed, and they have to cover their genitals within their spending limits. apple products are more avoidable, obviously

Went to a music festival with another couple recently. In their 40s, two kids, professional jobs. They were off their faces the whole time. Booze & drugs. I was shocked. They thought I was boring! My party days are over...
Wouldn't have batted an eyelid at a London party when I was 22. I assumed that everybody grew out of that stuff. But no, it's socially acceptable at any age now. Kate Moss?

i'm banging on about this, but alleycat that is the age group where use is on the up. the 22yo now are far less likely to be partaking

It's a last ditch attempt to recapture their youth - "yay, look at us, we know how to party" - when actually they just look like middle aged fannys (to quote from Irn upthread - love that word!) who are off their faces.