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?

petula but possessing it is a criminal offence, so they are criminals surely?

using drugs isn't illegal. possession, supply and production is illegal

If you're using, surely you're in possession?

Who knows anybody who has died after taking a few lines of coke socially?

i had friends who took it when i was at university. at that time i wasn't really bothered about the legalities and wasn't fully aware of the knock-on effect of the drugs trade worldwide. but i did find it made them very poor company

not necessarily, someone else might be in possession, cuts you a line, you sniff, off you go. i don't think the police can nick you for having it in your bloodstream alone, unless you're driving a car or something

Sshroom please tell me you're not so stupid as to think Cocaine is harmless?

I think cocaine, like heroin/diamorphine, is an excellent medicinal drug. Yes you can find it in very specific places in hospitals. I think it's fine in this context where it is grown ethically for pharmaceutical use.

I think it is unacceptable to have these drugs outside of medical need. Yes to the industry behind it being criminal and exploitative. Yes to it having long-term health implications. Yes to people not being better behaved and nicer, or more fun, for having taken it.

Weed? I think it has it's place in a medical setting. ONLY in a medical setting.

And all these parents who tale it. Most of them wouldn't let their kids have a fucking fruit shoot or slice of white bread and there they are shoving coke up their nose. Which was probably transported in someone's arse.

Give some to your kids if it's so fucking wholesome.

I most certainly would never find it acceptable socially or otherwise. It is an illegal substance for a start. I wouldn't associate with people who took this drug.

3% of sudden deaths are attributed to cocaine use

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/715053

I know a guy who has to wink & nudge and insinuate about his occasional drug use in almost any social situation. It's cringeworthy in the extreme... But it's ok, he works in the meeja

oh and sshroom as a user name is pretty much a giveaway as to what the OPs view on drug use is!

The thing is, Sshroom, when I was sitting in dingy flats in North london 17 years ago I would have said it was becoming more 'socially acceptable' because amongst the people I mixed with everyone seemed to be doing it.

Just because you are doing it now and so are your friends, doesn't mean that everyone is - it just means the people you are mixing with are doing it.

you haven't invented to social acceptability of cocaine, people have been using it for years and years and years. I am sure my dad was using it back in the 60s too and thought it was socially acceptable back then.

Here here take

I was one of the very few who didn't do it in my late twenties. Nowadays I wouldn't know as most of my socialising is playdates.

I do judge people who do it, they show disregard for others lives and suffering and slavery by directly funding those circles just because they are too dull to have fun without it.

People who are on cocaine are really REALLY dull to be around, they look stupid, the act/dance stupid, they can't hold a conversation, it's as rude as going for a meal with people then putting in your headphones and taking out a kindle! really it is.

It turned my EX into a scitzophrenia. Ruined the lives of my children and I, hate him now for it and that was over 8 years ago.
Not acceptable.

Prob wouldnt be too bothered but wouldnt be very impressed incase someone caught them (eg in restaurant loos etc) or they had a bad reaction and had a heart attack!! Prob wouldnt like them to do in my house.

As a parent, I wouldn't incase the drug was cut with some crazy like a hallucinating drug which took 6 + hours to wear off or some other chemical which killed me.

"I do judge people who do it, they show disregard for others lives and suffering and slavery by directly funding those circles just because they are too dull to have fun without it."

i agree

dueling is bang on. sshroom you're irresponsible insinuating most people are doing it . No. they. Are. Not.

In my experience cocaine should only be used by boring people- it does given them a bit of pep in a social setting which can make talking to them more tolerable.

Interesting and engaging people are a total nightmare when they're on coke because they just become manic and self absorbed

LOL @ sshroom, I used to work in acute cardiac care, sat morning/sun morning cocaine admissions paid our overtime! but hey, y'know if you think heart attacks never killed anyone… carry on!

I know people who have or do take coke or other drugs. They're no more boring than drinkers.

I'm in favour of it being legalised. Takes away the criminal element for those who need help. Takes away the criminal aspects of the supply chain.

I find sanctimonious drinkers a bit odd. Coke is bad! Coke can kill! The criminals! Another large glass of red for me, thanks!

I know two people (male) who died in their 40s from heart attacks caused by cocaine use. Both would probably claim to be recreational users.

My partying heyday was about 15 years ago and drugs were everywhere then - cocaine, marijuana, and ecstasy in particular. I hear that they are even cheaper & more readily available now.

I wouldn't mind it if a friend did any of the above occasionally, but I wouldn't be close with people who made it a way of life.

Concerns about supply chain etc are not the fault of the user. They are the fault of legislators who refuse to legalise them despite overwhelming evidence that they are no worse than legal drugs nicotine and alcohol.

"A 50 something from Devon probably doesn't experience many of her friends taking coke in a bar on a Saturday night."

it really depends on which 50 something you are talking about though, doesn't it.

50 year old cocaine users tend to mix with other cocaine users.

I would hazard a guess that most mothers on this forum don't do cocaine because they have far more pressing things that they need to be attending to like bringing up reasonable members of the human race, working full time and getting stuff done - so you're not really going to get swathes of people here agreeing with you.

Many women on here will also be experiencing or have experience of partners who want to continue living like they did in their 20s and taking Cocaine despite the risks (health and financial) and will be dealing with the stresses that use can create.

Maybe you are too young and free and single to be able to put yourself into the shoes of those people but don't be silly enough to start telling people that they aren't mixing in the right kind of circles to have a valid opinin on if it's socially acceptable or not!