Drug use- what do you find acceptable?

[Rachmumoftwo]

There is a thread that has touched on this already. What is acceptable drug use in your eyes? Is it OK to smoke a little weed when the children are in bed, or take cocaine on weekends or holidays, or is it totally irresponsible to even entertain the idea of drug taking if you are a parent (or if you are planning to be)?

I have zero tolerance to drug use (prefer moderate drinking as opposed to excessive). Luckily my Dh and our friends are of the same view. We are aware, we are in the minority, as we don't drink alcohol or smoke - our own personal choice (we never have drank/smoked). We enjoy being social without needing to use alcohol or drugs to have a good time (in social situations, people often say they find the fact that we don't drink, unusual and unthinkable in their own situation).

I work in a profession where doing anything illegal is out of the question. I am just glad that alcohol is not illegal, because if it were I wouldn't be able to drink. Which would be tragic.

Some of us occupy social/professional spaces where doing illegal stuff is not an option. The consequences of any sort of conviction or run-in with the police would be unthinkable. It's a bit different if a caution/conviction for possession wouldn't affect your job or friendships, maybe your colleagues would all think it's a right laugh or maybe they would even think you are cool and some kind of hero. For me it would be the end of my career, and I'm surrounded by friends in a similar situation.

I am against all recreational illegal drug use. I don't drink alcohol because of migraines, and I do miss an occasional glass but it's not worth the pain to me.

Weed for pain control when nothing else would work is more tolerable to me. We live close to Colorado where weed is legal and if I had a condition that weed would improve my condition of life or a family member I would move there to do it legally.

i don't know anyone who really wanted to try weed/e/coke whatever and chose not to purely because it was illegal.

In my book no drug use is acceptable. It's a mugs game and people who insist it does them and their families no harm are deluded self absorbed arrogant idiots.

DP and I have no kids. We take coke and mdma from time to time if we go to see a DJ or its New Year's Eve or something. As do most of our friends. Certainly not every weekend.

I never drink. Just not my thing. DP has a few beers every week.

I am not sure we would do the drugs if we had kids. But I'm not sure why? I don't have any moral objections clearly and it's no different to drinking. In fact, I ou take very small amounts and never have any ill affects the next day as I would with drinking.

For me:

Booze - fine
Anything else - deal breaker

We naturally have wound down our use of everything now, DH used to smoke and smoke weed. We used to do party drugs at weekends. Now we work shifts/have DS we're lucky to manage a couple of glasses of wine of an evening before we start to nod off. Guess it's called being old gimmers. We wear slippers now too and talk about home improvements. We're just not that exciting any more!

I don't take drugs and also rarely drink, but don't have a moral problem with drugs. However, I think that if there are children in the house (even in bed), at least one parent needs to be sober enough to make sure that they could deal with the children if they wet the bed/have a nightmare/have an accident and need their parents. It would be awful for a child to cry for mummy or daddy and have some drunk or drugged person coming into the bedroom and not knowing what to do. If you want to get off your face, send the kids to stay tucked up safely at their grandparents that night.

No drugs of any sort here - tbh I wouldn't have married anyone into drugs and certainly wouldn't have children with anyone into drugs.

We both drink - but rarely at home.

If we have a "big" night out, our child stays with GP so isn't there to see any drunken parents or hungover parents.

He does of course see one of us take a drink if at a family party or out for a meal.

wow 2008 - is that a new ZOMBI_E record?

I'm massively anti drugs, which surprises most people as I'm a bit of a middle class hippie so they expect me to smoke weed or do coke occasionally or something. I have 2 main reasons for not: the main one being that I can't get my head around (a) how many people have died to get your weed/coke/heroin to you and (b) how many bum holes it's been up on its way to you. Illegal drugs mean there are people in countries far away that no one wants to think about being enslaved to harvest and transport them, turf wars resulting in young, really young, kids dying for their gangs, women and children being raped and mutilated in the name of drug lords. And that is before they even leave their country of origin. Once over here it's naive young kids being shot and stabbed to be 'taught a lesson' for selling in the wrong place, or not selling enough, or rating someone out or whatever else it is that happens. And all for what? So you can dance like a twat at Glastonbury? Get me some equal opportunities, fairly traded drugs that didn't arrive in the UK in a comdom shoved up someone's ass and I'll consider it. And for this reason I totally don't judge my friend's aunt Sheila who has a couple of pot plants in her conservatory that she lovingly cares for - good for her, I say. But I'm happy with my organically produced bottle of Pinot Noir for the time being.

[the other reason I hate drugs is that my Coke addict ex boyfriend used to beat the crap out of me. He was an asshole, but I blame the Coke too.]

Aw man I didn't get the zombie thread warning because other posts had been made. And I even read the whole thing like a numpty :(

I have reported this thread and asked Mnhq to tag it as a zombie thread to make posters aware before they post. I hadn't checked the date it was posted and had replied too (not realising it was a zombie thread)