To ask what are your opinions on social cocaine use?

[sshroom]

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?

More socially acceptable? No, I don't think so but use is certainly more widespread. I also work in the TV industry and it's easier to count those who don't use it rather than those who do.

I can't be doing with it myself. It instantly transforms people into Grade-A boring fucking arseholes. Grandiose plans, talking 19 to the dozen and the constant how good is this, and who's got some and where can we get more.

What amazes me is why people would spend so much money on it, and if they're not a high earners how they can afford it.

Meh
Not sure about the socially acceptable part. It seems about the same as always to me.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest if friends or acquaintances were taking it.

Never done it but would love to try a line.

I know people who have done in it the past. Doesn't bother me.

It bothers me because i have seen people spiral out of control many times after occasional use.

If you have children I think it's a bad idea as in reality you're taking a risk as you don't know what you're getting. I know people who took a 'safe' amount in a 'safe' way and have had a fit or passed out, one died and one still suffers the effects. Yes, many people use it and are ok, but is it worth the risk even if it is a great feeling? IMO, when you have children, no.

Cocaine transforms intelligent interesting people into boorish morons.

It is a vile drug that has destroyed relationships and lives of so many of my friends.

Just remember who has trafficked the drug - what suffering is caused through the brutality of the cartels. Plus with every toke you are lining the pockets of some scrote of a drug dealer.

"Socially acceptable" my arse - only to people who don't give a fuck about the well being of other human beings.

bump so I can come back and read this when I have time

My friends do.
Pretty much my entire social circle do or did. Cocaine is the new version of a joint at a party

It is up to an individual what they do.

I see people with multiple problems daily - many of these people have problems exacerbated by their use of alcohol and drugs.

Murder, rape, paedophilia, armed robbery, violence against women... all part of the drugs trade. When people snort coke they are financing that. Yes I do judge.

Is it socially acceptable to be drunk? Many of the effects of cocaine are mimicked with alcohol. Drunks can be just as aggressive/boring. Alcohol can be just as addictive and wreck lives.

By far the most compelling reason NOT to buy cocaine is the organised crime/violence/destitution that its production supports.
BUT could that be solved to some degree by controlled legalisation? Could it actually create industry/jobs (as well as taxes)?

Its hypocrisy to be self-righteous about cocaine (for any reason other than a social conscious) whilst thinking nothing of drinking alcohol.

I wonder if they had this debate around Prohibition...

I think in some circles it is socially acceptable,yes.

If my friend wants to be a twat and do drugs as long as they don't do them around me or my kids i don't care.

sshroom Tue 16-Sep-14 15:07:28
How do you know those who take it do not go to the gym, play football, go travelling etc? You are stereotyping.

I just asked you a question as you mentioned natural highs yet become rude when I ask you what exactly you are talking to. What would compare to going on a night out and having a few lines

Actually I get the sense you are being rather defensive about it, when its pointed out that theres plenty of other natural highs.

The people I knew were certainly doing it didn't do other things in life because their central focus in life was what they would do on a friday or saturday night, and they spent all their disposable income doing that, and stopped looking further in life. They complained they had no money to do the other things, or they were so fucked during the week after having such a big party weekend that they didn't have the energy/motivation to do anything else.

They turned into selfish self absorbed wankers and from what I see on this thread, thats not just my experience but the experience of a lot of other people.

I have seen it to be such a waste of life.

I have to say I find your reaction to quite a few comments on this thread quite goady. Unusually so, if you are someone who isn't using socially yourself.

Someone who might agree its socially accepted

Its illegal, so I would feel the same if they were drunk driving, stealing etc. Do I want friends that deliberately break the law, no!

Yes, I think it has become more socially acceptable and I think people are becoming more open about it.

I used to partake years ago, I don't anymore. That said, I don't judge those that do - I'd rather chat to someone with a line of coke in their system than someone off their tits on shots frankly. But yes, anyone that partakes in any kind of altering substance (alcohol, weed, coke) on such a regular basis that they turn into a twat is to be avoided. But the occasional line at a party once or twice a year if that does not a "user" or "scumbag" make.

I was also going to make the point about ipods/iphones etc but Laymizzrarb already did that. I would assume those who have purchased iphones haven't thought that hard about the slave labour conditions in the Chinese factories where the suicide rate is sky high, nor those that shop in Primark thought about those children working in sweatshops in Bangladesh.

I don't mind it and used to do it. Very occasionally (like once a year) still do

The only guilt I have is the production of it and the lives ruined. But that doesn't stop me and it's only when I think about it later I feel a twinge. Then I think of how unethical everything else is and justify it to myself that way.

I didnt get past the first line

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

In your social crowd maybe. I don't know anyone who admits to taking it, although Im sure some might.

I agree with saucy - it's pretty common. I wouldn't have a problem with it unless the person in question was a family member or going to do something stupid like drive etc. I personally made a decision a long time ago that I didn't like the production process and morally I am not at ease with how people are treated to produce cocaine. It also must have some long term detrimental health effects. That's my choice though, everyone can experiment if they want to.

Drugs are for losers

I love how the need to be clothed is compared to the 'need' of snorting coke...yes, it should be one of our fundamental human rights not

OMG I thought the reason toilets didn't have flat surfaces was so you didn't put your hand bag down and forget it. How naïve am I?

I've known Teachers, Nurses, Social Workers, Drs, Surgeons, Solicitors, Microbiologists, Pharmacologists, Artists, Singers and people on the dole use it (that's just the people in my social circle and not addicts I've known through my profession).

I don't think it's any more socially acceptable now than it was before because it wasn't unacceptable before. All the people in my social circle used it recreationally and it wasn't problematic and none of them really do it now because they've got kids and can't go on benders or whatever and also, it is unseemly when you're in your late 30s or early 40s!.

I just couldn't use something that was a product of organised crime. I have druggie reletives and a close family member is a convicted drug smuggler (not coke) I spent parts of my childhood around druggies and have been to many parties when I was young where everyone else was doing something (not always coke)
I have never used any drug and I don't intend to. I expect I might like the feeling but I don't won't to be part of the drug industry. It's nasty.

The world would be a much better place without drugs.