Middle-aged professional women doing drugs on the weekend

[Snookerfan]

Is this common now? I was invited to a house party Saturday night and snow was being done quite openly, there were also Mary Jane vapes and Ecstasy passed around.

These were mainly mothers with adult grown sensible families. What is going on, am I totally not with it?

Was it always this way or is this scene infiltrating a different demographic now?

We always knew people like this did this, but was it this open and accepted?

I didn’t partake, still a great night.

I dropped a Mum friend I made at the school gates because of her and her dh's weekend cocaine habit. She was a fitness fanatic who had a personal trainer and only ate clean and organic, was a SENCO in a private school, and yet could cheerfully ignore all the horrific facts about the drugs trade from the cartels to county lines, just for her weekend jollies. I found I couldn't like her enough to stay friends.

Not remotely surprised.

I personally think we should legalise all drugs- remove the harm by increasing the quality but also tax the fuck out of them. I think it would actually reduce harm if we ensure standards during manufacture and dosage.

Humans are always going to human.

I don't think this is the norm at all and I'd stay clear of them. They're old enough to know better than to play with drugs.

I'm thinking now of what I've always advised my kids, about how they could find themselves in jail if they get pulled over and a friend with drugs stashes them under the seat, how people who play with illegal drugs are involved with criminals, how you never know what's mixed in with illegal drugs and so on.

Just because they're older doesn't mean they can't get arrested or addicted or other poor outcome. And just because you didn't partake doesn't mean you can't get dragged into the trouble they're asking for.

Stimulant drugs mixed with alcohol is a really bad Idea particularly as you get older you're at real risk of a heart attack.
As pp have said running the risk of getting busted with class A if in a professional job that could be career ending.

I presume it is a case of middle class have dealers that wear a tie so they can pretend and it all ok and no one gets hurt?, and if people want to get off the face on drugs I don't see why the government have to be involved, doing drugs is a free choice no one is being forced to take it

and if people want to go down the 'well it is no different to prosecco' when some one says to me they do cocaine or heroin because they enjoy the taste then sure I will believe them then

"The squeezed middle-class"

It’s been quite some time since a celebrity has been exposed in the press for drug taking (I think).

I see celebrities as a niche part of the social group the party guests are part of. I think the reason drug taking isn’t newsworthy anymore is because it is so commonplace. Everyone is at it. Not every single person, but all “classes”, all ages, all occupations.

At least it will make retirement homes more tolerable.

Grim. I would avoid. The impact on all the lives that are affected by the drugs trade is awful.

I know plenty of over 40s now who just haven't stopped. They're boring AF when on the 'treats'.

Bloody foolish doing coke after I'd say 35. 30 even, regularly. Not to mention the supply chain issues. Only one is a close friend as not caring about that is really off-putting.

(They wouldn’t get done for possession if they weren’t their drugs in the car )

God no. Haven't known anyone take drugs since I was an undergraduate (and that was marijana and magic mushrooms, not cocaine). But I work in the pharmaceutical industry so if you've ever been involved in the manufacture of a drug you're far too aware of the lack of document to want to take something illegal.

I dated someone a few years back and was surprised to learn pretty much all his circle of middle aged parents all did various drugs. All shared the same dealers. All had decent jobs. All in mid 40s. It was off-putting and I judged them for thinking this was ok when they had kids.

How did you get to 'they are embarrassing' from this post?

I love marijuana.

It’s helped me so much with my health.

I’m in Canada thankfully.

I totally get what you mean. I don't understand it either. The only thing I can think of is when they're richer and more 'respectable ' In society they're a bit more 'untouchable'. kerri-charlene from the estate will get report to social services, Hilary who works as a solicitor, will get away with it.

I personally think it's fucking childish and shameful behaviour.

I imagined someone going round offering crisps or nuts from a bowl in one hand and ecstasy from a bowl in the other?

Where do you live? Would never happen in my social circles, we're all menopausal and going for non alcoholic drinks and early to bed...

People are stressed. They want a release.

Same here. Everyone has fun and lets loose a bit and then goes back to their normal and successful lives - until the next time.

Yes exactly, once organised crime has got hold of an illegal drugs trade, there is no way to remove them from it by legalisation. Thats why the Mafia still controls all the post-prohibition alcohol trade in America and why its impossible to buy wine unless you personally know Al Capone.

no, wait

I’m shocked at middle class and middle aged professional having adult children. Most people in that group have children late 30s and 40s.

This. Having worked with exploited children, 100% agree.
Might all seem like harmless fun, when you're snorting a line up your middle class nose, but pay some thought to how that powder got to you.
Probably the same people fretting that their chicken might be factory raised or their egg isn't free range.

Living life on the edge, you are.

In the essay "Prof. Veblen" (1919) the intellectual H. L. Mencken addressed the matters of Americans' social psychology reported in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), by asking:

"Do I enjoy a decent bath because I know that John Smith cannot afford one—or because I delight in being clean? Do I admire Beethoven's Fifth Symphony because it is incomprehensible to Congressmen and Methodists—or because I genuinely love music? Do I prefer terrapin à la Maryland to fried liver, because plowhands must put up with the liver—or because the terrapin is intrinsically a more charming dose?"

(people arent taking drugs because they want to look cool, they are taking drugs because drugs are fun)

i would walk out.