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Drugs. Be honest..

737 replies

Trivialpursuitofhappiness · 25/01/2021 18:44

Inspired by the white bag thread, it just got me curious. I’m not a journo! Although, I suppose that’s what a journalist would say.. Grin

Have you / do you take drugs? What did you take and why did you?

I’ll be honest and go first, I occassinally use MDMA and I do use coke on nights. But I don’t have kids and I’d stop as soon as I was having them

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prawntoastie · 27/01/2021 09:01

Sorry add

Ballons - 1 second high which rots your brains cell, give you a headache but for 1 minute you feel high and hallucinate

YepCuntyIsTaken · 27/01/2021 11:13

People will always use drugs. The best way to remove the criminal element is to decriminilise drugs, make them legally available and subject to safety standards and controls. BOOM - all the criminal activity around drugs disappears, govt can tax spends, people can grown their own. Decriminilisation should go hand in hand with wider access to treatment for anyone who might be addicted or having other issues with drugs.

SixesAndEights · 27/01/2021 11:33

@CounsellorTroi

I am always struck by respondents on these threads who say drugs? No, never not me, alcohol is enough. Alcohol is a drug, it's incredibly harmful, the only difference is that it's legal. Prohibition does not work and causes more harm than legalising and regulating.

At least with alcohol you can be sure it’s not cut with anything. No one ever died from a bad batch of wine.

Well, alcohol is legal isn't it. I imagine there'd be plenty of deaths from "bad batches" if the same people who cultivated other drugs and added stuff to them did the same with alcohol because there was no regulation.

Isn't it funny how people don't refer to alcohol as a drug. If you legalised all the other drugs they'd still be drugs.

Alcohol is the most dangerous drug, I think on a list of all drugs and their damage, it's at the top. Here's a study, which shows this, although there's arguments against the rankings as variables are so different.

Read what the consensus is about pot and how it compares to alcohol.

www.vox.com/2015/2/24/8094759/alcohol-marijuana

SixesAndEights · 27/01/2021 11:34

Interesting that the study shows mushrooms to be the least dangerous. If I knew more about them they'd be my drug of choice these days if I was to take anything.

IndieRo · 27/01/2021 11:35

I've never taken drugs, neither has my husband or friends. We are 39 and 40. I've never been offered drugs are seen anybody take drugs.Ive never smoked but I enjoy a beer at the weekend. I'm female.

Chanjer · 27/01/2021 11:46

At least with alcohol you can be sure it’s not cut with anything. No one ever died from a bad batch of wine

Funnily enough death or permanent disability due to bad batches of alcohol does occur in countries with strict prohibition.

Chipsandchesses · 27/01/2021 14:28

No one ever died from a bad batch of wine......

That’s not true, it’s not rare in other countries for people to buy a drink in a bar and actually it’s under the counter stuff that blinds/kills them

WotAComplete · 27/01/2021 14:30

Alcoholism kills more people than all the drugs combined.

I’m not pro-drugs. Just saying.

RootyT00t · 27/01/2021 14:43

@WotAComplete

Alcoholism kills more people than all the drugs combined.

I’m not pro-drugs. Just saying.

Maybe so but what does drug addition do?
wherearthough · 27/01/2021 14:46

Don't see the point, never have and probably never will.
I tend to have natural highs (generally positive and upbeat) so don't think drugs could enhance that I'm also not a risk taker.

minipie · 27/01/2021 15:01

@MalorieSnooty

I have undiagnosed autism and was a HORRIFICALLY anxious and depressed child (masked the entire time, I was a complete wreck).

At uni, I was persuaded by an ex to try MDMA on a night out and, honestly, it was like someone had switched a light on.

I only did it a few times but it changed me. I don't get anxious anymore and am very happy go lucky.

Someone’s probably already said this but there are scientific studies that back this up

here

minipie · 27/01/2021 15:03

@unmarkedbythat

I am always struck by respondents on these threads who say drugs? No, never not me, alcohol is enough. Alcohol is a drug, it's incredibly harmful, the only difference is that it's legal. Prohibition does not work and causes more harm than legalising and regulating.
Something being legal means two major differences 1) safety, you know what’s in it and 2) ethics, your money is supporting a legal and regulated industry rather than god knows what
Godimabitch · 27/01/2021 15:04

I had a cannabis brownie and a cannabis lollipop in Amsterdam. both did nothing. Also had laughing gas in ayia napa if that counts, horrible stuff.
I like being in control of my body, not much of a drinker either.

Changethetoner · 27/01/2021 15:05

No. I have never smoked a cigarette either.

Godimabitch · 27/01/2021 15:05

Considering trying MDMA now though!

Sweet666 · 27/01/2021 15:16

So many people saying they have never done any drugs... But in real life it seems like everyone has done drugs or does do drugs? Why the big difference on mumsnet? If you go on a night out cocaine is everywhere or to a music event or festival it's hard to not get offered drugs? And what about being a teenager when drugs are everywhere?

RootyT00t · 27/01/2021 15:21

@Sweet666

So many people saying they have never done any drugs... But in real life it seems like everyone has done drugs or does do drugs? Why the big difference on mumsnet? If you go on a night out cocaine is everywhere or to a music event or festival it's hard to not get offered drugs? And what about being a teenager when drugs are everywhere?
I have never done or been offered it.

I'm not a goody two shoes by any stretch I just havent.

WaxOnFeckOff · 27/01/2021 15:22

@Sweet666

So many people saying they have never done any drugs... But in real life it seems like everyone has done drugs or does do drugs? Why the big difference on mumsnet? If you go on a night out cocaine is everywhere or to a music event or festival it's hard to not get offered drugs? And what about being a teenager when drugs are everywhere?
What's this thing you call a "night out"? Grin

There is your answer...

Even in my yoof i was never offered drugs - was propositioned by a prostitute when I was about 14 as she thought I was a boy, but no drugs. It was glue sniffing for teenagers back in my day.

GoOutsideAndPlay · 27/01/2021 15:26

never done drugs. never been offered them.

rather too fond of the Italian fizzy wine though.

i have never even held a cigarette.

49 here.

DH used to do cocaine when a stockbroker in the city. But he gave it up as his responsibilities at work became greater and he realised it was a massive hindrance.

wherearthough · 27/01/2021 15:31

@Sweet666 I echo other posters ...I've been out most weekends in London during uni years, festivals, all night parties you name it and never been offered ever ...maybe dealers can spot their target market Grin

scentedgeranium · 27/01/2021 15:35

This thread is interesting. An unscientific scroll shows me that far from 'everyone' having done it as threads often suggest (accusations of posters being naive are also often thrown around), most people haven't. And if they have they (like me) have only dabbled very lightly and for a very limited time. I feel quite reassured that I'm in the 'normal' range!

Sweet666 · 27/01/2021 15:47

I wonder if age comes into it? When I have been out and surrounded by young people, everyone is doing cocaine or pills and smoking weed is the norm even among the 'good' posh young people but you hear older people saying they never tried drugs?

Changechangychange · 27/01/2021 15:48

[quote wherearthough]@Sweet666 I echo other posters ...I've been out most weekends in London during uni years, festivals, all night parties you name it and never been offered ever ...maybe dealers can spot their target market Grin[/quote]
My poor DBro gets approached by people looking for weed all the time. Including when he was out shopping with my 70yr old DM Confused

He is a professional in his 40s (has been happening since he was in his mid-20s), bit of an ageing hipster but very clean-cut. I have absolutely no idea why they are approaching him, he doesn’t look like any dealer I have ever known (and definitely does NOT have a sideline).

ComtesseDeSpair · 27/01/2021 15:51

@scentedgeranium

This thread is interesting. An unscientific scroll shows me that far from 'everyone' having done it as threads often suggest (accusations of posters being naive are also often thrown around), most people haven't. And if they have they (like me) have only dabbled very lightly and for a very limited time. I feel quite reassured that I'm in the 'normal' range!
Of course. Everyone’s view depends on their own experience and your normal depends on your world view. Recreational drugs are the absolute norm in my circle - all London based, childfree, affluent, big on the Burning Man, festivals, parties, kink scene etc. A lot of Fintech entrepreneurs, start-up founders, venture capitalists, finance professionals etc - maybe people used to analysing and assessing risk and challenging often baseless assumptions in their working life are more prepared to do so in their personal life? Who knows. It’s our lifestyle. I’m certainly not naive enough to think we’re at all comparable to people of our age group who are parents or who move in more conservative circles or live outside big cities or never got into clubs and parties etc. I don’t think I’m any more “normal” than you or vice versa - we just have different lives altogether!
RobinWoodPrinceofLeaves · 27/01/2021 16:02

Ive never done drugs apart from alchohol.

I may have tried it if someone was to push me but alas it is too late now I fear to try drugs.