Tory MP Crispin Blunt 'outs himself' as popper user

[LurkingHusband]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35363865

A Conservative MP has told the House of Commons he is a user of the popper recreational drug and a ban on its supply would be "fantastically stupid".
Ex-minister Crispin Blunt said users of the drug were "astonished" by talk of a ban and respect for the law "would fly out of the window" if it happened.

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[MsBojangles]

Poppers remind me 1998, good times.

[ppeatfruit]

It's the large seeds they ain't small believe me

[ForalltheSaints]

I was at university with him- we even spoke about the Falklands War in a shop! This surprised me even more than when he came out a few years ago. Brave of him as I suspect those who want him deselected will use it against him.

[QueenStromba]

That would be why they look like normal poppies to me then!

[CoteDAzur]

My one sniff of poppers made my ears burn. Not an experience I sought to repeat.

I have been told that it has very interesting and pleasurable effects when used shortly before orgasm, and that is by heterosexual couples.

I'm with you in general, OP. Everyone should be free to eat, drink, snort, or otherwise ingest whatever the hell they want. It is none of government's business what people do with their bodies in the pursuit of good fun, whether it is dildos or ecstasy pills.

[ppeatfruit]

The only problem with that attitude Cotedazur is that if people come to grief then the very overstretched NHS has to pick up the pieces I apply that to idiots who climb mountains in bad conditions etc. too.btw.

[0phelia]

A mate of mine had a bottle of poppers in his pocket and fell asleep. He woke up with severe burns down his thigh, the lid had somehow leaked. Horrendous! Other than that unlikely side effect, they're no more harmful than spirits.

[LurkingHusband]

Is there a bodily autonomy angle here ?

[ArcheryAnnie]

Ophelia I've still got a scar on my calf from falling asleep with an insufficiently-wrapped hot water bottle years ago!

I don't even drink (not teetotal, just rarely/never get around to it), never mind take drugs, but I applaud any MP who is prepared to be open about their drug use. He's right, too - for the younger gay men I know it's a totally normal thing. Education about possible side-effects, especially for people with heart problems, would be a good thing, but a blanket ban without considering the wider implications of instantly criminalising a large number of people seems to be not very sensible.

(And like hundreds and thousands of other people, my dad died from fags, and my mum from booze, neither of which anyone is going to criminalise anytime soon.)

[ppeatfruit]

Yes but at least booze and fags are slightly less acceptable than they used to be, esp. fags.

I love the way ex heroin users still smoke normal cigarettes and think it's ok but they are apparently worse (or just as addictive).

[LordOfMisrule]

I'm a poppers user too.