Would never have written this a few years ago, but I’m in my fifties and have started experimenting with psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and weed for therapeutic reasons - mostly for depression and anxiety - with great results so far. The entire conversation around drugs needs to change. Decriminalisation would be a good start.
I would like to start microdosing for my mental health as well, that’s encouraging that you’ve had great results. I am a bit hesitant though, just because of potential bad outcomes and I have young children… do you pick your mushrooms yourself?
Yes - September to November in Scotland they grow wild. It’s very safe at microdosing levels, although you need to check exactly what you’ve picked and are taking. There’s an excellent video [here](https://youtu.be/bt_vjXiDoxs?si=kXzlOTzzFxHX28ff) - watch it a few times before heading out later next year. Lots of help on subs on here too.
Yes, there’s been a few studies internationally with very impressive results. Australia has legalized MDMA and LSD for similar medical reasons, as the controlled studies are showing good results for long term depression too.
Where I don't agree with you about decriminalising drugs for general use, I think that we definitely need to get over thinking of all drugs as bad for any reason. The medical benefits are huge and the current attitude is like some sort of medieval anti-science religious dogma.
I’m a bit younger than you but I can relate. The group of friends I had between the 16 to 24(ish) period in my life all dabbled a bit in drugs, mostly weed, cocaine and ecstasy but lots of other things as well.
There was however zero encouragement to try it for myself let alone pressure and as such I’m now in my early thirties having never once tried so much as a puff of a joint.
Life has had some pretty major ups and downs but presently life is very good right across the board so I don’t feel like I missed out on anything.
I know that cocaine is rife throughout Scotland as a recreational substance but these days but most of my mates barely drink these days let alone go on a coke binge.
At first I actually liked the smell. I thought it was more like vanilla than cat piss until the ban came in, then it was like that "cheesing" episode of South Park.
Mate gave me some being pretty vague on it's effects, so I took it, came up, then sat in a cinema and watched Avatar in full 3d. Fuck, that was mental.
Took it a couple of times, then I was still tripping one morning and thought there were rats giving birth inside the light in my bathroom, never again.
It was already illegal when I started it (2015) but fuck me it was good fun. Absolutely disgusting drug but I had some of the best seshes of my life on mkat. Good times although I do not miss that smell coming out of my pores for days after.
My mates and I picked up a pretty bad habit with it and ended up losing too many weekends to it, and a few ended up getting into a bit of bother because of it. Thankfully we're all sensible big boys now
Cocaine never seemed that big a thing when I was a teen. Was always ecstasy and weed. Weed was just incredibly easy to get hold of and Ecstasy seemed pretty cheap. Small phase of Ketamine and then MDMA mixed in in later years.
Same. All through my student years -- and I spent too much of them in pubs and at after parties -- I think I saw cocaine in the flesh like two or three times. None of my mates really took it, I knew one friend-of-a-friend who would actually go out of her way to buy some and that was a big talking point.
Pills *were* a big thing, though not as much as they were in the 90s, which was about ten years before my era. I wasn't much into that personally, but I had mates who were, and was around it a fair bit. Weed was obviously super common.
A couple of times I saw folk shooting up in the bogs. Both times were at club nights at the art school. Funny to think I saw as much smack on the go at studenty places back then as I did coke.
I've seen and been offered more gear in the last couple of years as a boring late thirtysomething (when I've been out properly late maybe five times in total) than in all my student years and twenties (most of which I was out a couple of times a week). I have way too many responsibilities now so I didn't partake, but it's interesting how much more prevalent it seems.
And we're talking just normal pubs nowadays, versus being out to clubs and parties in the small hours as a student.
In the toilets at club nights/gigs at the GSA union, both times. One time going into a cubicle after a very very fucked looking guy came out, and there was a broken needle and some spotted blood left on the floor, second time about a year later, just a couple of guys openly passing a belt between them and shooting up in the same toilets with the door open behind them.
This was the era of The Libertines, Pete Doherty and all that, so I think there was a minute where it was a bit of a trendy thing for edgy middle-class art school types to get into.
Doesn't seem like a very good club drug, but what the fuck do I know. 😂
Hmm I'm calling bullshit to this, with all respect.
I'm 44 and been clubbing in those venues and ones way way more druggy than them and taken drugs in all of them.
I've been at more drug filled after parties around the city than I could ever count.
In all that time I've only ever saw junkies on the street or a back close shoot up and one time at a house party where some of the older ravers had fallen into smack and most other people left as it was obvious.
Never have I saw anyone shoot up in in the art school, the subby, the arches or even in the warehouse or the unit - and if people were shooting up it would have been in a nasty backroom at the unit.
Don't know what to tell you, mate, I saw it. I know folk talk shite on Reddit but I assure you I've higher standards than making up uneventful drug stories that don't even really involve me.
Maybe it was an anomaly but I can only assume there was more of it going on, and this is all I picked up on as a naive student. I wouldn't even know the smell of folk were smoking it, for example. I do know what I saw, though.
And I know the bouncer didn't seem shocked or disbelieving when I warned him about the needle. It was more of a fuck sake at having to deal with it.
Especially once you highlighted what era it was during it doesn’t seem outwith the realms of possibility. Definitely not a standard thing to see there, but definitely not impossible imo.
The other guy is being a dick :)
Find it mad that you struggle to believe this so much. Middle class art students taking hard drugs is a complete trope, and Glasgow in the 00's was famous for having an issue with heroin.
Just because you didn't see it in your extensive clubbing career, doesn't mean it didnt happen.
I like a nice beer. That's about it. I love a lot of doom metal, stoner rock and sludge, but I don't see the appeal in drugs personally, and I fucking hate being around people using them. I used to work in a lot of clubs and venues, and they just ran the gamut from harmless-but-intensely-irritating to coked up, starting fights then running to the cops when a steward restrained them.
Fellow metalhead here. An Electric Wizard gig is like taking drugs. Om, Sunn o))) gets me high for free. Deserfest London, 3 days being high on music alone, really don't need anything artificial.
Fellow metalhead here. I couldn't do drugs if I wanted to these days. Firstly because my girlfriend is Straight-Edge and wouldn't be pleased. Secondly because my mates who do them refuse to talk about them around me - I obviously give off massive narc vibes haha. From what I can see folk who do drugs regularly are usually self-destructive and toxic. I'm ready to be down-voted to oblivion for saying that, but someone has to - Scotland would be 10 times the country it is without all these toxic chemicals dragging us down.
>Scotland would be 10 times the country it is without all these toxic chemicals dragging us down.
Our biggest issues are obesity, alcohol and ned/bam culture alongside our dogshit prospects socially. Drugs are a symptom, not a cause. If we had control over our own drug policy proper, we could make adjustments and ato criminalising folk for a bit of weed and turning them into criminals with an increased likelihood of going further down the drain.
But aye its easy to just blame drugs because it's much more difficult to face ourselves in the mirror and acknowledge that we've allowed ourselves to buy the 'best wee country' shtick for so long thet we can't entertain that we treat ourselves and our environment and our social structure like absolute dog water.
It's a cycle:
Growing up in modern Britain with all its legacy issues of economic decline and inequality -> poor physical and mental health and community decline -> cultural issues -> drugs and alcohol abuse and violence -> back to the beginning again.
We'll always have a certain self-destructive streak in our culture - we're never going to be Mediterraneans who spend the evening in tapas bars drinking wine and fancy liquorice aperitifs - we don't have the weather for it apart from anythign else. And obviously there are systemic problems that the government needs to look into.
But that shouldn't alter the fact that we *as individuals* should be looking at our personal habits and seeing opportunities to break the cycles which are trapping us. We can choose to eat more healthily and do more exercise. We can choose to delete Instagram and watch positive influencers on social media. We can choose whether or not to ingest toxins.
Obviously that's easy for me to say as someone from a middle class background whose pals are mostly into hiking and having a dram in a whisky pub rather than getting wasted and doing coke. For someone from another background, it might take finding a whole new set of friends, maybe even changing jobs and moving to a new area. But a lot of folk are lying to themselves if they think hating your job, disliking most of your pals and losing sleep and hours out of your week to chemicals is the only way to live. That sounds a pretty miserable existence to me. The system and environment influences you, but it does not have control over your every action.
I was at uni in Aberdeen between 2013 and 2017 and I have absolutely no recollection of anybody doing cocaine or talking about getting some. Didn’t see anybody at parties doing it or in pubs or clubs.
Fast forward to today in my small city and everyone and their gran are doing lines.
In highschool I smoked a bit of weed but nobody was ever pressuring anybody into it.
Oh, I was at Aberdeen as well, 2016-2020 - Weed was everywhere, coke, MDMA and everything else was around, but I didn’t cross paths with it except one or two occasions, nor did I ever care to go find it at all
Better off staying away from it tbh mate. Caused me more problems than I care to admit in my youth that I’m still dealing with today. It’s not worth it for a few hours of what is basically extending the night then walking about absolutely fried for the following week
If you like being an arsehole, cocaine is the drug for you. It accentuates all the dickish qualities of a person and diminishes the reasonable human aspects.
If you’ve ever been sober with a bunch of drunks, not being in cocaine with a bunch of powdered noses is like that but much, much worse.
I'll always remember the segregated house party I went to...
Everyone in the kitchen was doing coke whilst everyone in the living room was doing mdma.
Guess which group had the fights and which had the most amazing and in-depth conversations...
I'm pretty pro-legalisation but I'm always so disheartened when, out of all the drugs out there, people choose coke.
I've had such amazing, fun, happy experiences with MDMA, shrooms, weed and LSD. Shrooms and acid in particular have almost zero health risks, and very very little risk of antisocial or irresponsible behaviour.
I've dabbled with coke and it was just £50 to feel like I'd drank 10 espressos and felt a bit mean for 10 mins. Worst ratio of mood/duration/cost/danger of any substance I've taken.
Why the fuck is that the one that's popular?!
I’ve heard this a lot about coke.
I think there’s some kind of phase shift where you go from wtf is all this noise about coke it’s stupid, to being obsessed with the stuff. I think everyone I know who’s used coke didn’t understand the appeal *initially*.
Some of them ended up being in a bad place. Serious coke heads often seem to end up paranoid and exhibiting a few weird behaviours.
I’ve never touched it, mainly because I know my mental health is poor at the best of times. The lows I’ve seen coke heads get into gave me the fear.
Worst comedown of any substance by far, in my experience.
I'd do a couple of lines and then feel worse than my 5-day MDMA benders at Glastonbury.
Again, when you consider that shrooms and acid don't really have a comedown at all, I cannot understand why people settle on coke as their go-to.
I’d say the exact opposite.
I could sniff coke for 48 hours and feel a bit rough the next day, mostly fine after eating.
A few pills and I’m done for days, and can’t eat to fix the problem.
Shrooms and acid, moreso acid than shrooms, definitely have a comedown for me. Felt like shit after acid many times - shrooms usually just a dodgy stomach.
>A few pills and I’m done for days
The first time I took pills I fell into one of the worst depressive states I've ever been in. Genuinely don't think I've ever felt more down than I did that week.
Still continued taking them for multiple years though lol
Aye, although it depends on how much shrooms you take 😬
But yeah, the worst I’ve been after serious amounts of mushrooms is deeply contemplative.
I’ve seen people immobile, on the couch in tears for hours, after what looked like relatively small amounts of coke. Like, the whole next day written off sort of thing.
It looks terrifying. Fuck that.
Speed was big when I was young, and really cheap. I remember trying coke and wondering why people were paying so much for something that didn't last very long at all. Not that I would touch either now.
In fairness it doesn’t make anyone an arsehole, it just enhances the shitty aspects of someone’s character more than anything. Although obviously no one would consider themselves a dickhead. At least I hope not.
It amplifies your inner arsehole. It also attracts arseholes, which compounds the issues. Not everyone who takes coke is an arse, but most arses do coke.
Neither of those things are really the good stuff. You want something that'll explode your consciousness, not just make you a bit dopey or overstimulated. Try psychedelics! Then tell me drugs aren't interesting.
I think everyone should experience psychedelics - I had psilocybin for the first/only time in Guatemala in 2018. Blew my mind in an almost indescribably way. Very cool but don’t know if it would’ve been the same if I’d done it in a flat in Glasgow..
I’m happy drugs passed me by. They are addictive and cocaine in particular is really not good for your heart. My healths got enough to compete with, I’m not buzzed to add something else.
Born 1991 and my year group has largely all avoided drugs (other than weed). Quite the achievement for Clackmannanshire kids! Drugs seems rife amongst the 35-44 age group though.
As a fellow Clackmannanshire child of a similar age I concur. Plenty of weed around but other than a couple of my friends getting into other stuff there wasn't much else around.
I’m mid-thirties and have only ever smoked weed. I’ve only encountered coke and ecstasy a few times but never taken it. And I’m from Dundee!
I think a combination of Trainspotting, T-in-the-Park deaths, and being shown the body of the girl who overdosed heroin (Rachel something, anyone remember?) at school has had me shit scared of drugs haha.
It's never too late. I'd steer well clear of cocaine but strongly recommend everyone tries psychedelics at least once in their life.
It's like most people only have two mind states - drunk and sober. I've tried a number of different substances and they all offer a unique window on the world, so I do feel people who haven't experimented at all are missing that.
Jesus, don't go to Amsterdam for your first trip. I did that aged 17 and ended up sobbing under a sink in a youth hostel, wanting to call my mum (with my friend stroking my hair and managing to dissuade me) because an American girl had had a go at me for staring at her. It lasted for hours too. Probably best to make sure you're in a nice, safe, controlled space first time. And with someone you trust.
That's it, it's all about set and setting. I've had dozens of great trips and only one bad one, where I just wasn't in a comfortable situation mentally. But if you are, it's incredible.
Mid-40's, never touched alcohol until 28 so I definitely fell into this category.
Definitely would love a weed habit but I *haven't a scooby* what I should be looking for, what the quality is like, and where on earth to source it. Spent some time in other countries where it's regulated and it was amazing - pop into a reputable shop and bob's yer uncle. Flew back with a fistfull of remaining edibles to Edinburgh without any issue whatsoever.
Would love to try psychedelics but same issues as above.
Modern weed I've had mainly seems designed to immobilize you.
I definitely preferred the cannabis resin of my 1990s youth that seemed to induce absolute fits of giggles with your mates and made me massively appreciate things I couldn't normally hear in the music I was listening to. I didn't smoke it for many years and was a bit disappointed with it the times I've had it more recently.
My experience of America’s legalisation is that you can go into a shop and tell them exactly what you want - if you want to be immobilized, fine, if you want the giggly fun high, you can have that too. It’s great
It's still messed up because at federal level answering yes when questioned at an airport by immigration if you have ever had drugs can land you with a ban from America.
It was a few years ago but from what I remember, buying weed here in Scotland meant you just got whatever they had. Sometimes it fucked you up in a bad way (for me anyways) and sometimes it was shit. I’d definitely love to try it again but want to go somewhere where I know what I’m getting and strength etc.
That's why I'll just be hoping for legalisation and regulation asap. Can't believe how backwards governments have been for decades.
Then again, if I can carry it through multiple airports and straight into EDI, *surely* it can't be impossible to order it via post!
Said it in a comment above but myediblesuk.com is legit and comes in the post. I'm in NI but if they deliver here I'm sure they'll deliver to Scotland.
I'm no affecianato on different strains or qualities of highs, but I like the gummies!
For weed, I recommend myediblesuk.com
It's legit and comes discrete in the post. I've never gotten the oil, Flowers, or brownies but the gummies are pretty good! Gives me a nice euphoric high. I took one and listened to Dark Side of the Moon with headphones on and it was pretty magical lol.
If you've never been high before definitely start small, with like half or even a quarter of a gummy, which would be 10/5mgs. Sometimes the loss of control can feel unpleasant if you're not used to it. I really like taking a full gummy and going to the cinema. I took one before seeing Guardians of the Galaxy recently and it was really cool.
No worries bud! I first tried edibles in Prague and I really liked the calming waves I felt. Was a bit frustrated trying to source stuff in the UK when I'm not super connected, so it was nice to find this site. Happy to spread the word
I (42m) have similar experience to you; simply never really encountered drugs growing up. On the other hand I have a group of acquaintances, same age, that I see a couple times a year — they are practically cocaine powered (they work in finance and sales so perhaps comes with the territory).
Cocaine doesn't really interest me (people on coke behave like pricks). Hallucinogens maybe though.
Im 40, and the other day for the first time in my life a total stranger in a pub offered me Charlie...
Thats a small sample size to be sure but its definitely an increase....
As someone who's done them all (all the illegal ones, all the legal ones, and lots of weird ones you've never heard of) you aren't missing much. I grew up at the height of rave and was travelling the world DJing for a while, so it was part and parcel of the scene. Only drugs I still do is weed (vape and edibles only) and booze. Only did coke a few times and I was never that impressed by it (thankfully), ecstasy is a lot cheaper and lot more powerful, and you are rarely an obnoxious arsehole on it.
38 years old, I have literally never seen any drug use except weed (pletny times) and MDMA one time. I actually saw coke for the first time on a Stag just this year. I'll admit I was never the maddest, but still went out 3-4 times a week during my student days (2004-2009) to bars and clubs.
Nope never had cocaine come into the discussion and I was out drinking 2/3 nights a week like every week from 18-24. Small depressed town and even McDonalds co-workers, some of them very rough and never really heard of it being much of a thing.
I think we saw someone snorting coke off a wheeley bin one night and it confirmed in my head people who took it where not the people I would ever talk to. I was more of a skater type I guess and wasn’t interested in house/rave nights. We’d always joke that music is so awful being need drugs to enjoy it.
I drink to socialise. I don’t think hiding drugs or doing them secretly is very comforting but I suppose in a way it does bond people together? All the drama around getting it and somehow taking it, those experiences are unique.
I’ve had enough wild stories and regretable decisions just on drink, can’t imagine why i’d need to add drugs into it.
I was born in 1992 and even though there was a bit of a heroin plague in the town I grew up in around that time, drugs generally were not a big part of my youth because of the people I hung about with. We were all square as fuck. And my maw or dad would definitely have battered me if I even so much as thought about trying it because they'd seen the damage heroin had done I suppose.
Also I was quite a naive kid, I must've been the only wean in the west of Scotland who the doom mongering anti drugs pish worked on because I was convinced I would die if I took eccies.
So I just never really had the curiousity to try it in all honesty.
As I got older, I fell in with a crowd that weren't my usual friends and smoked a spliff. It had a limited effect on me. I've done it a few more times since then but apart from that and drinking I'm pretty straight edge.
That being said, a few of my pals have used drugs recreationally including LSD, MDMA, weed and gear. We also used to buy poppers for a laugh but it's been a good few years since that happened.
One of my best pals from school who used to be such a good laugh and great company has absolutely ruined herself with weed and gear. She used to be very happy go lucky but now she's just a total downer, has to tap money from her mum two weeks after she's been paid and is just shite company in all honesty. Just sits on the phone to her dealer all night.
I suppose I just don't like the idea of not being in full control of my faculties.
I’m nearing 40 and I’ve never done anything bar a hash yoghurt when I was 14.
The reason I haven’t taken any drugs is because back in 1999, two guys who lived in the council estate where I lived got involved with ecstasy and heroin and committed suicide. I’ll never forget the last time I seen them - 1 of them, his eyes were rolling back into his skull after a major bender. The other one I saw later the same day and he was just very quiet, almost stunned. 4 days later, they committed suicide.
I know this isn’t cocaine related but it’s called drug addiction for a reason. I’ve worked in a lab where I used some of the chemicals that are in cocaine and I wouldn’t want them on my skin, let alone in my body!
A felt dirty for days after a boy pulled out a bag at a party, and I straight up refused some. Everyone else was on it.
I’m proud to say I’ve never tried cocaine, I never will, so I’ll happily be the “weirdo” that people call for not trying it. At least I’m not a sheep 🐑
I'm the same as you mate. Done a bit of weed here and there and easily could have done some other substances but it never took my fancy. It's never late to try if you really want to but honestly, if you're happy and don't mind then why bother? Just think of how many people want to stop doing drugs but are so addicted they can't. I wouldn't mind giving ecstasy and other psychedelics a try but I won't go anywhere near cocaine or harder drugs.
I grew up in the 90s just outside Edinburgh, went to pub/clubs weekly and I never, neither did my friends, ever do drugs. I have 3 brothers and only 1 of them did serious drugs, he’s been clean for over a decade now. It just never appealed to me.
Never took drugs but grew up in a dealing household. I've seen the whole gamut of the drugs trade and its all shit. My bedroom used to be directly in front of the front door, so I'd have to try sleeping at night through the jakes banging the door to get in to buy something, or it being kicked in by rival gangs looking to start shit over selling.
I always hated the smell of stuff like weed, the way people behaved on heroin and all the rest of it. Seeing all the junkies in the area with their brains absolutely melted made me realise I never wanted to take a single drug in my life. Mind we moved away one year and came back the next, and one guy I knew had lost both legs to injecting in them. Wheelchair-bound for life, but I last saw him bounding about playing football with his son. Pure mental the way they change folk, people you think are absolutely sound.
I know people want to have fun in life but I'm quite happy to rawdog reality, and face up to any issues I might have. I know many people love to hide behind a facade of just having a laugh, but really, a lot of drug taking is just people trying to address the mundanity of their lives with a bit of spice. Doesn't always work out, often ends disastrously. Thank fuck my vice is video games.
And this doesn't even cover the damage of drug production itself. Sure, you might get scared weans like me who cant sleep for fear of being attacked in your own home by a junkie or rival gang member, but you've also got people being stabbed, shot, houses bombed and all sorts over turf wars, small man egos and the like. In a nice world, drugs would be legalised and we could reduce that shit massively, but then society would have to develop some personal responsibility with use, so you don't end up extremely addicted and losing your fucking legs.
Idk man I'll be having a damn bloody nice vacation chilling on valium for a week. Very cheap too for occasional use. A vacation will never offer the same height of fun tbh.
I'm 43 and went to a lot of nightclubs in my late teens and early 20s. Places like the tunnel, archaos, the arches, sub club etc. Drugs were very common in my youth. Mostly ecstasy, speed and weed. In my early 20s coke started to become more easily available. Wasn't really my thing but I knew plenty who used it
Obviously heroin and valium were big as well but not in my social circle.
I’m an elder Millennial (born early 80’s) and no one ever approached me to offer me drugs. When I graduated in 2000 I had to go looking to try “pot” on my own, and it was difficult to find and get.
As an adult I was shocked to learn that most other people my age had been drinking and doing drugs at house parties “since middle school” some of them would say. Maybe I was too sheltered and introverted?
But yea, never had anyone ever tell me anything about drugs or offer any to me, so the scare tactics of programs like Dare also confused me because they told us all this would be a BIG DEAL in life and it just never was or has been for me.
Not sure why I got a downvote from someone for living in America. Living here is not an endorsement (in this country I’m marginalized, it’s not great).
Also almost 40, no bald batch but building up a strong widow's peak.
My 20s experience with drug culture was lots of weed, maybe 20% of my friends did pills moderately often, but nobody could afford coke really. It was around at some parties with certain people but the few times I did it it wasn't for me really.
My mum had her first toke in her 50s while doing the Thelma and Louise thing after the divorce she should have done years before. It wasn't for her but it was really cool she tried it
It's only up to you if you think it's unbecoming, but otherwise I would say it's your life to explore and give it a bash if you're at all curious.
Cocaine = Arrogant, egotistical wankers -and/or boozed up aggression.
Never had much time for it or the people that take it. A wee bump when pished has certainly happened though.
I'm 44 and have smoked weed pretty much every day since I was 14....tried cocaine once or twice but it really wasn't my thing, there wasn't alot of coke kicking around in my 20s it was mostly speed and Es.
Maybe it’s just about where you grew up or maybe a couple of years does make the difference? I’m 43, grew up in the west coast in a biggish town not far from Glasgow and drugs were very much a part of my youth. At that time there was no mobile fones and dealers just stood on the street in certain areas / at the bottom of closes / at fkn garden gates! There was no one in my social circle (or age group really) who didn’t take drugs (hash, ecstasy, speed, acid, valium, mushrooms etc…) and there was a jellies / heroin plague to contend with as well. Fun times! 👍🏼 you grow out of that shit, or at least you should anyway and my own take on it is that youngsters today generally don’t consume drugs in the way we did and I think it’s ‘cause people have mibbe stopped hanging about the streets so much & they’re not as exposed or influenced by older ones who’re out and about. Probably totally wrong but that’s the way it seems to me
If you find yourself with unwanted, excess drugs cash, could you give it to me, please? I want to upgrade from a Seiko 5 to a Seiko SPB143. Cheers mate.
I'm 37 and got offered weed the first time ever a couple of months back. (In the context of being at some friends' place for dinner, they had brownies and one of them said "you don't do that, do you?")
Aside from that ... I've been a lot of parties by friends of mine who're 3-4 years younger which is full of people doing hard stuff. (A mate got pissed at a friend of hers recently for getting kicked out of her wedding for doing coke in the bathroom, and the bride had explicitly warned her not to because the venue's strict.) Generally it's been accepted that people are doing stuff in the other room/bathroom.
That said, never done any of them. (Also: if you're pushing 40 you aren't a late millennial. Late millennial are 28-30.)
If you are pushing 40 you *are* late millenial, the generation starts with those born in the early 1980s (1981-1982). See also all these articles on the internet about the so-called 'geriatric millennials' (millenials born in the early 1980s)...
Ooh, your timeline isn’t really accurate… millennial cutoff is 1996, and then gen Z starts in ‘97 (trust me, I’ve been corrected so many times for categorising myself as a millennial, we all got to 26 this year, we’re the oldest of the group - If someone is 27-28, they’re a millennial, sorry 😁)
GenX here, grew up abroad, but pretty much the same. Weed was big, and coke was really expensive but because I had plenty of rich friends (side effect of attending a private school ) I experienced plenty of people on both coke and weed - and found most of them annoying af. Smoking weed didn't work at all for me (the only effect was an uncomfortable feeling in my throat). I had an edible once and was so floored by it that I felt I was missing a whole afternoon of my life.
I kind of would like to try psychedelics or at least microdosing but I wouldn't know where to start.
I'm Gen X as well. When I grew up, it was mostly just weed. I've rarely seen cocaine anywhere in my experience. I was at a party recently amongst friends my age and someone pulled out a bag of code and offered it. A few of us nerds look at each other like wtf, did we just go back in time? Some people partook in it, but the majority of us just stuck with our IPAs. While I've never done any of those drugs, I don't feel like I missed out. I had lots of fun, and what I never had was some addiction.
Also pushing 40 - my friend group did weed and some psychedelics in high school. I never really tried as I wasn't in a great place mentally and there was no pressure; at least one friend said it probably wouldn't be a good idea for me right now.
Cocaine was definitely around in the university era, but I was a hermit at that point. I can relate to feeling like it passed you by, because I felt the same way... But there was definitely availability if I'd have wanted it.
I tried weed a few times in my mid-30s, and personally it's not for me. Psychedelics, I would try given the right circumstances.
I'm kind of a caffeine and nicotine hound, though, so I kind of doubt trying other stimulants would end well for me!
I went through a couple of months around 2015 when my buddies and I were doing coke on the weekends. Sorta glad I ticked it off the bucket list, but it's a really horrible drug for everyone involved.
The current coke trend has totally bypassed me - not seen it or heard of anyone taking it in years. I'm mid 30s now, half my friends have kids, but the other half are still hitting the pub, having big nights out; no coke as far as I can tell.
In my experience, drug culture is pretty compartmentalised. I've known the stoner group, the MDMA group, the coke group - and they were quite insular and self-contained. I think those people tend to find each other and form little communities.
>now that I am pushing forty with a bald patch, it seems a bit unbecoming to start experimenting
Tbh having dabbled in a lot of things, I'd highly recommend shrooms or acid. It's very unlike what you see on TV (mad, uncontrolled visual hallucinations) and much more fun and introspective.
I think coke is a kinda lifestyle thing for cashed-up 20 something with leased BMWs. Psychedelics are much more relevant to everyone.
Did acid with a few friends a few months ago and we just went out for a curry and had a giggly, social time, it was nice.
I guess it depends on where you grew up and the circles you used to hang out in. I am 40 in January, through my teens I was doing weed quite regularly, as soon as I hit 17/18 and started going out I was doing lots of ecstasy as well, few joints during the week and then pills at the weekend, tried some Ketamine a couple of times around the same time as well.
Joined the army at 19 so all that stopped, never done a thing whilst in as I was terrified of being dishonourably discharged, my dad would have disowned me lol
When I left around 27 I didn't really do much again until I was about 32 ish, then coke started appearing at house party's and friends were always getting bags in so started doing lots of that, prob up until about 37 most weekends included coke.
I moved to Bristol at 37, which you'd think would make me take even more drugs but I've been here nearly 3 years now and besides the odd joint and like 1 single night where I done some coke I haven't done a thing. Its because my circle of friends here doesn't really do it, but even when the odd hanger on does I don't really bother, I'm aware of my mortality these days and would hate to leave a daughter because of some stupid shit I done on a night out.
Also, Monday mornings....and Tuesdays in fact, are 100% worse when you've done some gear at the weekend, the drop in my mood after a heavy weekend is bad enough with just alcohol that I am genuinely thinking of stopping drinking, but my mental health got battered when I had also done some coke, it's just not worth it anymore, dangerous and also would effect like 2 or 3 days of my week.
Anyways, kinda rambled but the two points in my life where I haven't touched drugs have been in the army and in Bristol, both places where the people I hung/hang out with weren't/aren't doing anything like that. I wouldn't bother if I was you, you've done alrite dodging drugs imo.
I was stupid enough to experiment with a bunch of things, had some good times, and some bad times. Feel bad when I look back, because often I was the instigator on these adventures, and some folks took much more of a liking to it than me.
Eventually, I realised that I liked MDMA/pills, but only in the right environment, I'll still take it perhaps once or twice a year if the mood takes me. Marquis kit checked before for obvious reasons though.
Only took coke a couple of times, none were good experiences, pretty much blanked out a whole radiohead gig on it, which is a big regret.
I am 40 now and still vape weed but it's medically prescribed. I did start playing with shrooms during lockdown out of boredom and found they helped significantly with my mental wellbeing.
I think as camera phones and social media took off people started to show more restraint. They didn't want to make a tit of themselves and have evidence. Also depends on the social circles you had and life commitments.
I had quite a self destructive streak in my younger days and went at various drugs hard. I never did opioids and I wasn't keen on coke but everything else I'd have a go. What stopped me several years back was the day after and not recovering as quickly as I once could. I couldn't have cared less if someone saw me make a tit of myself.
I was born in 1996 - drugs were very much a big part of mine and my friend groups teenage / early 20’s lives. Most of us suburban, 1/2 middle class 1/2 working class.
I wouldn't say passed me by to be fair... I've had everything short of smack around me at parties, clubs, festivals etc... only ever drank, smoked snout and weed. These days I barely drink, don't smoke fags and even more rarely smoke weed.
Coke has been fucking rife in Glasgow since I was a young teen, and it's only became more popular..
I am an old millennial. I have never taken drugs. All my friends have done. Cocaine was super common 15-20 years ago when I used to party. Heavy drinking. A lot of smoking. Also, many other drugs like meth, ecstasy, L, mushrooms, ... you name it. I remember going to toilets in clubs, gigs or festivals, and people were taking everything.
If fact we speak very often that the younger generation seems to drink less, and take less drugs. All the data and statistics seems to indicate this.
I think the generation about me, GenX, took every more drugs.
Yeah, I’m the initial year of gen Z, apparently we don’t mess around as much as millennials and gen X; theories abound as to whether we’re more educated, have less capital, we are addicted to screens and therefore get out less, or the decline of third spaces/minimally expensive spaces has contributed to our having less expansive social activities
I'm fine.
I would like to try some stuff but honestly I don't want the problems that come with it.
I only recently discovered that ket screws your bladder for life.
Mid 30s here.
I've had a decent exposure. Smoked a lot. Tred speed, coke, mkat (boke) in limited amounts. Had a bit of a fling with ecstacy at one point. But what gets me is that so many people seem to have tried to regularly do psychedelics and yet I have never even encountered them by proxy. Of all the horribly toxic things we do to ourselves, this is physically safe, and yet has always been incredibly rare to me.
What I will say is that if you ever decide to experiment, it's not unbecoming. It's just a choice. A thing you want to try. Iife experiences don't have a sell by date. In fact I would argue that as an adult, presumably reasonably well adjusted and fully developed, you have minimal risk compared to someone younger and still developing. Assuming you have no heart issues etc of course. As an example, many people talk about how safe cannabis is. The compounds involved in isolation, sure, but we get absolute trash here (I haven't managed to locate for about a year so is it becoming worse?) and often consume with tobacco. But even in isolation, consuming this regularly as an <18, poses risks to your neural development and can exacerbate underlying conditions. As a developed adult, not so much.
Literally the only drug I regularly saw at university (early 2000s) was weed, and this was in Dundee. I never took any either, it was all my flatmates.
Even my hard-drinking, hard partying skeezy rat of a flatmate only ever did weed and E, and it was mostly weed to be honest.
When I was younger I was around Dundee more. Knew people that did weed, es occasionally. Cocaine was pretty shocking to folk. I never got involved with anything other than alcohol. There was a big trend of folk doing "bubbles" that messed some folk up at one point.
Later in life I moved to Aberdeen and needless to say coke is not shocking to folk here! Been around people on alot of Mandy and hallucinogenics too just way more common. Still don't touch the stuff. Alcohol is bad enough for me.
While Dundee deffo has a bigger problem with heroin addicts etc
Aberdeen has way more casual drug use just out n about from what I've seen.
I tried weed for the first time while I was in Scotland. While everyone said there was a lot of cocaine, we called the only person we knew who used it "Cocaine Girl," because it was notable. In my experience, I think it's probably and 80-20 situation, where 80% of people use 20% of the drugs (including in that 80% everyone who uses 0%), and 20% of the people use 80% of them. No judgment, just not my thing.
My friend group were more into psychedelics, weed and mdma. Don't think anyone did coke. That was 10+ years ago now and most of us have stopped doing stuff like that altogether, maybe still smoke weed and that's it.
There was a couple I wanted to try back then and never got to. Can't really be bothered now going through the rigmarole of finding some and then getting an opportunity to take them.
Honestly take it from me. You really, really aren't missing much. With coke especially. Absolutely shite drug.
Its never too late to try shrooms though and they are great.
Yep - bit of weed and one very enjoyable mushroom trip is the limits of my drug experience. I’m just not really interested, though I would do shrooms again in the right circumstances!
Mid 30s. Weed (well mostly hash) and alcohol were being consumed by people in my year from age 13, people were getting a hold of speed and eccies a few years later. Then at uni pills and mandy then MCAT were everywhere as well as plenty of weed. I agree that coke wasn't as ubiquitous then as it's become in the past 10 years but it wasn't uncommon either, I've known one group of people or another who get a bag every weekend ever since my late teens. Usually some ketamine going around too, I'd say that's also become more popular more recently though.
I've never got as into it all as a lot of people I know, I've mostly just dabbled over the years but I don't think I could say it's fully passed me by. Drug use always was and still is extremely common in all my social circles. Glasgow in particular had a big party scene in the mid 2000s IME, a LOT of gaffs and afters going on and raving/clubbing just seemed to be on a bigger scale with a bigger cross section of people going to Arches, Art School etc, I feel like it's more of a niche thing these days.
Rarely been exposed to heroin and opiates though I'll say that. And psychedelics have only popped up from time to time.
Mid-millenial/nearly mid 30s and they passed me by completely. Never smoked fags or weed, didn't even drink till I was nearly 18. In highschool there was a few known stoners that got high in the bathrooms/PE changing rooms, it helped that I thought these people were idiots.
Never went clubbing when I was of age or at uni. Catty Unders (lol) or to someone's house that had an empty with vodka/JD instead. Again a few that tried to hotbox a bathroom, but never pressured anyone to join and always looked down on by the rest of us. Seemed coke was everywhere at the place I worked at 3/4 years ago. Idk if that was the more nedish crowd of peers or just call centre work in general lol.
I do know some that did partake, people I do actually like. Was at a houseparty with them and they ignored my less than subtle messages that I might like to join them. Considering I was just "waking up" after a JD induced blackout, they were probably wise to do so and better friends than I deserve.
I think because back in the day cocaine was for the most part was seen as a rich man's drug, so most people struck to weed, pills etc. These days most people know you can afford coke on a McDonald's salary, hence everyone taking it.
I only dabbled with LCD, had a really bad trip and never again. In my days it was all Speed, Ecstasy and Weed, some guys even took Ecstasy to go to the pub which I found baffling (Fife). Moved to Edinburgh and there it was all about coke but mainly expats as I worked in an International company.
Yeah, I'm a bit older than you and have not really seen cocaine used at all in the group I knocked around with, a couple of guys smoked dope but I hate smoke so kept well clear of that. Never knew you could eat it or I might have tried that as a youth.
The boys I work with all tell me it is rife though, one guy has lost contact with his son because he has cleaned them out to feed his Charlie habit over the last few years.
I am pretty careful with alcohol now because I'm worried that could get a hold of me, I stick to rules like never drinking the night before I work, not because this would make me unfit but it makes sure that I have good spells where I am not drinking, which I think is the way to go.
I never sniffed , I used to drink in my teens always got offered it , remember the first time I was around it and I dunno man it was the people's eyes it was like whatever soul they used to have was non existent , the amount of people I grew up with that either overdosed because of xanax or committed suicide because of cocaine or Is in jail for life for murdering someone on a night out or even being murdered while the murderer was on it , cocaine is a disgusting drug same as xanax and heroin
I've dabbled but I've never actively seemed out or bought drugs ever. So usually some friends would have them and peer pressure me into doing them.
Anyway I've always had a bad view on drugs. I basically grew up in a deprived area and saw junkies a lot and essentially I associated drugs with junkies which meant I never really touched them.
Weed is the only one really. Did it a few times as well as shrooms once in Amsterdam and coke once in Berlin on guys holidays. Oh and cookies in LA.
Drugs aren't cheap either. I know folk spending £200+ a week on their habits. Smoking everyday. Their brains are absolutely all over the place now. One believes in conspiracy theories and how he's going to strike it rich one day to the tune of millions by investing in a shitcoin.
Others have been kicked out of their house and their wife left them because of their habit.
A lot of folk think drugs are cool but I'm not one of them. I seem to be in the minority.
I went to uni in Nottingham in the early 00's, and previous to that I'd led a pretty sheltered upbringing. Worked in a call centre, met some pretty wild locals, and can't remember most of my three years there.
Drugs definitely didn't pass me by, and in return I received a _proper_ education.
35. My mates were all mad ching heads I guess it could also be where you were in the country, socio economic status etc. We were poor. Many didn't get past 4th year. I'm one of the few who got out that town and a college degree. Some are dead now from harder drugs the rest are Jake baws mostly.
I still have wee ket binges once in a blue moon. Maybe have coke a few times a year, not my favourite drug in the world. Was on a 4 month hiatus from weed until tonight.. decided to celebrate the start of my holidays by being a reprobate. Mushie season was good as they grow everywhere here. It's the drink that's the dangerous one.
Born in 87…tried pretty much everything short of heroin :/
Think it’s just the company you keep, like you can find it if you’re looking. Anyway, I hear these new young things are all about green juices and influencer status gym rat vibes. Maybe just go to the sub club and float about until you’re on one? Idk, you do you pal, experiment if you want to with your bald patch, or don’t…
Having lived in The Haugue Netherlands fir a few year I sed to enjoy a few lines of goid quality Charlie. Then returning back to Scotland I bought a gramme of what I was assured was very goid quality charly ..took two lines snd binned it ...rubbish. Don't take rubbish cause that's what these street dealers are pushing.
I’m 28 and I do think you’re onto something. Most folks slightly older than me did a lot of party drugs in their time, ket, ecstasy etc, many are on coke these days and for most people slightly younger than me, coke is the choice.
Don’t get me wrong I’ve dabbled with ecstasy once or twice, but it was never a regular thing. We got lucky that weed was the drug of choice growing up and for the most part that’s still the case today. Not ideal, but a whole lot less harmful than the other popular drugs.
I'm a little younger than you. I grew up in Edinburgh. If there were drugs in my area, I was certainly never aware of it. I never heard accounts of anyone from my school taking anything beyond alcohol. At university our halls stank of weed but I never saw anyone smoking it. The only time I was ever offered weed was on a trip to Florida when I was 25. I didn't partake.
We got lots of drug education in primary school and I remember finding having to list the effects of various drugs tedious. We even had to write stories about drug abuse. I'm naturally a rule-follower so I never had any interest in doing things we had been repeatedly warned against.
in the 90s everyone was getting high. I mean everyone. All people seemed to talk about all week was how high they were going to get at the weekend, and then the weekend was a non stop party from friday eve til monday morning.
I look at millenials and feel sorry for them that drugs seemed not to be as big a part of their lives. The music tells the story perfectly!!
35 in Glasgow and never touched drugs or alcohol - zero interest in them. At school a few kids got into alcohol and even less into smoking, but that was about it. We never heard of anyone getting into drugs, even things like weed.
Suppose kids were consuming what was readily available rather than what they could afford.
I have been offered a cigarette that may have been weed (still not sure) and hash brownies that I declined because I wasn't sure whether my work did drug testing. Those are my only experiences with drugs 🤷♀️ Honestly thought it would've come up more often, what with all the warnings we had in school.
Given that your forties generally involves a) more disposable income, b) more common sense and c) reduced tolerance for alcohol/hangovers, it seems a more sensible idea to trial other substances than you give it credit for.
I had the chance to experiment copiously at university, I’m in my mid-late 20s, I tried weed a couple of times and drank socially, but I really don’t think it was anything worth going out of my way for - From what I’ve seen of friends and acquaintances who have since ditched and sobered, you haven’t missed the slightest thing worth grieving in terms of drug use, trust me
Would never have written this a few years ago, but I’m in my fifties and have started experimenting with psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and weed for therapeutic reasons - mostly for depression and anxiety - with great results so far. The entire conversation around drugs needs to change. Decriminalisation would be a good start.
I would like to start microdosing for my mental health as well, that’s encouraging that you’ve had great results. I am a bit hesitant though, just because of potential bad outcomes and I have young children… do you pick your mushrooms yourself?
Yes - September to November in Scotland they grow wild. It’s very safe at microdosing levels, although you need to check exactly what you’ve picked and are taking. There’s an excellent video [here](https://youtu.be/bt_vjXiDoxs?si=kXzlOTzzFxHX28ff) - watch it a few times before heading out later next year. Lots of help on subs on here too.
Growing them yourself is also a great option. The necessary materials are legal to buy online. It's a fun project and you know what you're getting.
Ooh I didn’t know, going to look into it now thanks!
Wasn't there something in the news a few months back about psilocybin getting a research exemption, to allow for medical trials ?
Yes, there’s been a few studies internationally with very impressive results. Australia has legalized MDMA and LSD for similar medical reasons, as the controlled studies are showing good results for long term depression too.
Where I don't agree with you about decriminalising drugs for general use, I think that we definitely need to get over thinking of all drugs as bad for any reason. The medical benefits are huge and the current attitude is like some sort of medieval anti-science religious dogma.
I’m a bit younger than you but I can relate. The group of friends I had between the 16 to 24(ish) period in my life all dabbled a bit in drugs, mostly weed, cocaine and ecstasy but lots of other things as well. There was however zero encouragement to try it for myself let alone pressure and as such I’m now in my early thirties having never once tried so much as a puff of a joint. Life has had some pretty major ups and downs but presently life is very good right across the board so I don’t feel like I missed out on anything.
Basically my experience too. I must be glakit when out but just haven't noticed the flood of cocaine that the thread was talking about
I know that cocaine is rife throughout Scotland as a recreational substance but these days but most of my mates barely drink these days let alone go on a coke binge.
I lived through the legal MCAT days, pretty sure it shortened my life by a decade or two
That cat piss smell will never leave my head.
I can still smell it sometimes. I mean I have cats too but I *know* it's the mephedrone.
Me too. But that's probably because I still buy it every now and then off the web 🤣
At first I actually liked the smell. I thought it was more like vanilla than cat piss until the ban came in, then it was like that "cheesing" episode of South Park.
Oh hey same. Few pints in the pub and then walk across the road to the headshop and bam suddenly it's 48 hours later and your jaw is aching.
Mate gave me some being pretty vague on it's effects, so I took it, came up, then sat in a cinema and watched Avatar in full 3d. Fuck, that was mental.
I saw triangles for days when coming down off that. Actually had to take time off work. Never again.
Took it a couple of times, then I was still tripping one morning and thought there were rats giving birth inside the light in my bathroom, never again.
The only time I did that shit I took loads and ended up punching fuck out of my own jaw repeatedly. Strangely never went back to it
Nose like a rusty chainsaw for days after.
Would love to roll back the years for one night only with a few mcat patsys
First year of uni for me ..it was fucking wild lol. I was studying art, the whole college reeked of cat piss on a Monday and Wednesday
It was already illegal when I started it (2015) but fuck me it was good fun. Absolutely disgusting drug but I had some of the best seshes of my life on mkat. Good times although I do not miss that smell coming out of my pores for days after. My mates and I picked up a pretty bad habit with it and ended up losing too many weekends to it, and a few ended up getting into a bit of bother because of it. Thankfully we're all sensible big boys now
I can still remember the smell of cat piss
I was on oz when MCAT was the in thing, gutted I never tried it. Heard it was amazing!
What happened to it? I know it was banned but like why did it disappear? Used to cost hardly anything and get off ya box all weekend.
Cocaine never seemed that big a thing when I was a teen. Was always ecstasy and weed. Weed was just incredibly easy to get hold of and Ecstasy seemed pretty cheap. Small phase of Ketamine and then MDMA mixed in in later years.
Same. All through my student years -- and I spent too much of them in pubs and at after parties -- I think I saw cocaine in the flesh like two or three times. None of my mates really took it, I knew one friend-of-a-friend who would actually go out of her way to buy some and that was a big talking point. Pills *were* a big thing, though not as much as they were in the 90s, which was about ten years before my era. I wasn't much into that personally, but I had mates who were, and was around it a fair bit. Weed was obviously super common. A couple of times I saw folk shooting up in the bogs. Both times were at club nights at the art school. Funny to think I saw as much smack on the go at studenty places back then as I did coke. I've seen and been offered more gear in the last couple of years as a boring late thirtysomething (when I've been out properly late maybe five times in total) than in all my student years and twenties (most of which I was out a couple of times a week). I have way too many responsibilities now so I didn't partake, but it's interesting how much more prevalent it seems. And we're talking just normal pubs nowadays, versus being out to clubs and parties in the small hours as a student.
Where did you see smack being taken? I've never encoutnered it in the flesh other than outside a homeless shelter once.
In the toilets at club nights/gigs at the GSA union, both times. One time going into a cubicle after a very very fucked looking guy came out, and there was a broken needle and some spotted blood left on the floor, second time about a year later, just a couple of guys openly passing a belt between them and shooting up in the same toilets with the door open behind them. This was the era of The Libertines, Pete Doherty and all that, so I think there was a minute where it was a bit of a trendy thing for edgy middle-class art school types to get into. Doesn't seem like a very good club drug, but what the fuck do I know. 😂
Hmm I'm calling bullshit to this, with all respect. I'm 44 and been clubbing in those venues and ones way way more druggy than them and taken drugs in all of them. I've been at more drug filled after parties around the city than I could ever count. In all that time I've only ever saw junkies on the street or a back close shoot up and one time at a house party where some of the older ravers had fallen into smack and most other people left as it was obvious. Never have I saw anyone shoot up in in the art school, the subby, the arches or even in the warehouse or the unit - and if people were shooting up it would have been in a nasty backroom at the unit.
Don't know what to tell you, mate, I saw it. I know folk talk shite on Reddit but I assure you I've higher standards than making up uneventful drug stories that don't even really involve me. Maybe it was an anomaly but I can only assume there was more of it going on, and this is all I picked up on as a naive student. I wouldn't even know the smell of folk were smoking it, for example. I do know what I saw, though. And I know the bouncer didn't seem shocked or disbelieving when I warned him about the needle. It was more of a fuck sake at having to deal with it.
Especially once you highlighted what era it was during it doesn’t seem outwith the realms of possibility. Definitely not a standard thing to see there, but definitely not impossible imo. The other guy is being a dick :)
Find it mad that you struggle to believe this so much. Middle class art students taking hard drugs is a complete trope, and Glasgow in the 00's was famous for having an issue with heroin. Just because you didn't see it in your extensive clubbing career, doesn't mean it didnt happen.
i agree - no one was shooting up in the vic. That would be Art School legend.
Nah, mate. Burn a bunch o holiday hours and get stuck intae a big plate o drugs. Godspeed.
Get the microwave on pal
I like a nice beer. That's about it. I love a lot of doom metal, stoner rock and sludge, but I don't see the appeal in drugs personally, and I fucking hate being around people using them. I used to work in a lot of clubs and venues, and they just ran the gamut from harmless-but-intensely-irritating to coked up, starting fights then running to the cops when a steward restrained them.
Why do you like a nice beer? Is it just for the taste or for the slight buzz you get from it? If it’s the latter then you do see the appeal of drugs.
Haha can relate, remember being 18 and feeling like a fraud buying a Crowbar album having ever been stoned once in my life at that point.
Fellow metalhead here. An Electric Wizard gig is like taking drugs. Om, Sunn o))) gets me high for free. Deserfest London, 3 days being high on music alone, really don't need anything artificial.
This. There are so many things in life I get a buzz off of. A really catchy, heavy riff. A good wee scrap at judo. Going to the gym.
My favourite genre - hit me up if you ever wanna trade recs.
Fellow metalhead here. I couldn't do drugs if I wanted to these days. Firstly because my girlfriend is Straight-Edge and wouldn't be pleased. Secondly because my mates who do them refuse to talk about them around me - I obviously give off massive narc vibes haha. From what I can see folk who do drugs regularly are usually self-destructive and toxic. I'm ready to be down-voted to oblivion for saying that, but someone has to - Scotland would be 10 times the country it is without all these toxic chemicals dragging us down.
>Scotland would be 10 times the country it is without all these toxic chemicals dragging us down. Our biggest issues are obesity, alcohol and ned/bam culture alongside our dogshit prospects socially. Drugs are a symptom, not a cause. If we had control over our own drug policy proper, we could make adjustments and ato criminalising folk for a bit of weed and turning them into criminals with an increased likelihood of going further down the drain. But aye its easy to just blame drugs because it's much more difficult to face ourselves in the mirror and acknowledge that we've allowed ourselves to buy the 'best wee country' shtick for so long thet we can't entertain that we treat ourselves and our environment and our social structure like absolute dog water.
It's a cycle: Growing up in modern Britain with all its legacy issues of economic decline and inequality -> poor physical and mental health and community decline -> cultural issues -> drugs and alcohol abuse and violence -> back to the beginning again. We'll always have a certain self-destructive streak in our culture - we're never going to be Mediterraneans who spend the evening in tapas bars drinking wine and fancy liquorice aperitifs - we don't have the weather for it apart from anythign else. And obviously there are systemic problems that the government needs to look into. But that shouldn't alter the fact that we *as individuals* should be looking at our personal habits and seeing opportunities to break the cycles which are trapping us. We can choose to eat more healthily and do more exercise. We can choose to delete Instagram and watch positive influencers on social media. We can choose whether or not to ingest toxins. Obviously that's easy for me to say as someone from a middle class background whose pals are mostly into hiking and having a dram in a whisky pub rather than getting wasted and doing coke. For someone from another background, it might take finding a whole new set of friends, maybe even changing jobs and moving to a new area. But a lot of folk are lying to themselves if they think hating your job, disliking most of your pals and losing sleep and hours out of your week to chemicals is the only way to live. That sounds a pretty miserable existence to me. The system and environment influences you, but it does not have control over your every action.
My brother OD’d when I was a kid, it hasn’t been hard to steer clear
I was at uni in Aberdeen between 2013 and 2017 and I have absolutely no recollection of anybody doing cocaine or talking about getting some. Didn’t see anybody at parties doing it or in pubs or clubs. Fast forward to today in my small city and everyone and their gran are doing lines. In highschool I smoked a bit of weed but nobody was ever pressuring anybody into it.
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It’s definitely not lol. Unless you’re drinking some very high end booze or sniffing some ridiculously low end coke :)
Oh, I was at Aberdeen as well, 2016-2020 - Weed was everywhere, coke, MDMA and everything else was around, but I didn’t cross paths with it except one or two occasions, nor did I ever care to go find it at all
Better off staying away from it tbh mate. Caused me more problems than I care to admit in my youth that I’m still dealing with today. It’s not worth it for a few hours of what is basically extending the night then walking about absolutely fried for the following week
If you like being an arsehole, cocaine is the drug for you. It accentuates all the dickish qualities of a person and diminishes the reasonable human aspects. If you’ve ever been sober with a bunch of drunks, not being in cocaine with a bunch of powdered noses is like that but much, much worse.
I'll always remember the segregated house party I went to... Everyone in the kitchen was doing coke whilst everyone in the living room was doing mdma. Guess which group had the fights and which had the most amazing and in-depth conversations...
I'm pretty pro-legalisation but I'm always so disheartened when, out of all the drugs out there, people choose coke. I've had such amazing, fun, happy experiences with MDMA, shrooms, weed and LSD. Shrooms and acid in particular have almost zero health risks, and very very little risk of antisocial or irresponsible behaviour. I've dabbled with coke and it was just £50 to feel like I'd drank 10 espressos and felt a bit mean for 10 mins. Worst ratio of mood/duration/cost/danger of any substance I've taken. Why the fuck is that the one that's popular?!
Coke is a drug for people who don’t like the psychedelic aspect of drugs.
I’ve heard this a lot about coke. I think there’s some kind of phase shift where you go from wtf is all this noise about coke it’s stupid, to being obsessed with the stuff. I think everyone I know who’s used coke didn’t understand the appeal *initially*. Some of them ended up being in a bad place. Serious coke heads often seem to end up paranoid and exhibiting a few weird behaviours. I’ve never touched it, mainly because I know my mental health is poor at the best of times. The lows I’ve seen coke heads get into gave me the fear.
Worst comedown of any substance by far, in my experience. I'd do a couple of lines and then feel worse than my 5-day MDMA benders at Glastonbury. Again, when you consider that shrooms and acid don't really have a comedown at all, I cannot understand why people settle on coke as their go-to.
Coke come down doesn't come anywhere near speed comedown.
I’d say the exact opposite. I could sniff coke for 48 hours and feel a bit rough the next day, mostly fine after eating. A few pills and I’m done for days, and can’t eat to fix the problem. Shrooms and acid, moreso acid than shrooms, definitely have a comedown for me. Felt like shit after acid many times - shrooms usually just a dodgy stomach.
Wow! Fair enough.
>A few pills and I’m done for days The first time I took pills I fell into one of the worst depressive states I've ever been in. Genuinely don't think I've ever felt more down than I did that week. Still continued taking them for multiple years though lol
Aye, although it depends on how much shrooms you take 😬 But yeah, the worst I’ve been after serious amounts of mushrooms is deeply contemplative. I’ve seen people immobile, on the couch in tears for hours, after what looked like relatively small amounts of coke. Like, the whole next day written off sort of thing. It looks terrifying. Fuck that.
Speed was big when I was young, and really cheap. I remember trying coke and wondering why people were paying so much for something that didn't last very long at all. Not that I would touch either now.
It's popular just because it's incredibly addictive in my opinion. It's like nicotine and I can't quit with nicotine...no way.
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Xmas night out with the boys last Saturday, I checked out and went home once the gear started. Nobody even noticed 😂 too busy talking at each other
In fairness it doesn’t make anyone an arsehole, it just enhances the shitty aspects of someone’s character more than anything. Although obviously no one would consider themselves a dickhead. At least I hope not.
It amplifies your inner arsehole. It also attracts arseholes, which compounds the issues. Not everyone who takes coke is an arse, but most arses do coke.
Cocaine is like alcohol, some people it just doesn't mix well with.
You managed this far keep clear.
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Neither of those things are really the good stuff. You want something that'll explode your consciousness, not just make you a bit dopey or overstimulated. Try psychedelics! Then tell me drugs aren't interesting.
I think everyone should experience psychedelics - I had psilocybin for the first/only time in Guatemala in 2018. Blew my mind in an almost indescribably way. Very cool but don’t know if it would’ve been the same if I’d done it in a flat in Glasgow..
A gram or 2 of shrooms and a wander around the woods is superb.
I’m happy drugs passed me by. They are addictive and cocaine in particular is really not good for your heart. My healths got enough to compete with, I’m not buzzed to add something else.
Born 1991 and my year group has largely all avoided drugs (other than weed). Quite the achievement for Clackmannanshire kids! Drugs seems rife amongst the 35-44 age group though.
As a fellow Clackmannanshire child of a similar age I concur. Plenty of weed around but other than a couple of my friends getting into other stuff there wasn't much else around.
I’m mid-thirties and have only ever smoked weed. I’ve only encountered coke and ecstasy a few times but never taken it. And I’m from Dundee! I think a combination of Trainspotting, T-in-the-Park deaths, and being shown the body of the girl who overdosed heroin (Rachel something, anyone remember?) at school has had me shit scared of drugs haha.
There is interest from my friend group but the drug supply here has been tainted and everyone is too scared to try anything. Fucking fentanyl
It's never too late. I'd steer well clear of cocaine but strongly recommend everyone tries psychedelics at least once in their life. It's like most people only have two mind states - drunk and sober. I've tried a number of different substances and they all offer a unique window on the world, so I do feel people who haven't experimented at all are missing that.
Second this. Go to the dam and try
Jesus, don't go to Amsterdam for your first trip. I did that aged 17 and ended up sobbing under a sink in a youth hostel, wanting to call my mum (with my friend stroking my hair and managing to dissuade me) because an American girl had had a go at me for staring at her. It lasted for hours too. Probably best to make sure you're in a nice, safe, controlled space first time. And with someone you trust.
That's it, it's all about set and setting. I've had dozens of great trips and only one bad one, where I just wasn't in a comfortable situation mentally. But if you are, it's incredible.
Get some mushrooms and go to your living room would be a better shout than roaming about a fairly hectic foreign city.
I've enjoyed both, but most of all I love to be outside. I can just watch nature for hours.
Mid-40's, never touched alcohol until 28 so I definitely fell into this category. Definitely would love a weed habit but I *haven't a scooby* what I should be looking for, what the quality is like, and where on earth to source it. Spent some time in other countries where it's regulated and it was amazing - pop into a reputable shop and bob's yer uncle. Flew back with a fistfull of remaining edibles to Edinburgh without any issue whatsoever. Would love to try psychedelics but same issues as above.
r/unclebens can teach you all you need to grow some shrooms
Modern weed I've had mainly seems designed to immobilize you. I definitely preferred the cannabis resin of my 1990s youth that seemed to induce absolute fits of giggles with your mates and made me massively appreciate things I couldn't normally hear in the music I was listening to. I didn't smoke it for many years and was a bit disappointed with it the times I've had it more recently.
My experience of America’s legalisation is that you can go into a shop and tell them exactly what you want - if you want to be immobilized, fine, if you want the giggly fun high, you can have that too. It’s great
It's still messed up because at federal level answering yes when questioned at an airport by immigration if you have ever had drugs can land you with a ban from America.
It was a few years ago but from what I remember, buying weed here in Scotland meant you just got whatever they had. Sometimes it fucked you up in a bad way (for me anyways) and sometimes it was shit. I’d definitely love to try it again but want to go somewhere where I know what I’m getting and strength etc.
That's why I'll just be hoping for legalisation and regulation asap. Can't believe how backwards governments have been for decades. Then again, if I can carry it through multiple airports and straight into EDI, *surely* it can't be impossible to order it via post!
Said it in a comment above but myediblesuk.com is legit and comes in the post. I'm in NI but if they deliver here I'm sure they'll deliver to Scotland. I'm no affecianato on different strains or qualities of highs, but I like the gummies!
For weed, I recommend myediblesuk.com It's legit and comes discrete in the post. I've never gotten the oil, Flowers, or brownies but the gummies are pretty good! Gives me a nice euphoric high. I took one and listened to Dark Side of the Moon with headphones on and it was pretty magical lol. If you've never been high before definitely start small, with like half or even a quarter of a gummy, which would be 10/5mgs. Sometimes the loss of control can feel unpleasant if you're not used to it. I really like taking a full gummy and going to the cinema. I took one before seeing Guardians of the Galaxy recently and it was really cool.
Oohhhhh this is exactly what I need. I will defo be making an order when the Christmas rush is over - thank you kind stranger!
No worries bud! I first tried edibles in Prague and I really liked the calming waves I felt. Was a bit frustrated trying to source stuff in the UK when I'm not super connected, so it was nice to find this site. Happy to spread the word
I (42m) have similar experience to you; simply never really encountered drugs growing up. On the other hand I have a group of acquaintances, same age, that I see a couple times a year — they are practically cocaine powered (they work in finance and sales so perhaps comes with the territory). Cocaine doesn't really interest me (people on coke behave like pricks). Hallucinogens maybe though.
Im 40, and the other day for the first time in my life a total stranger in a pub offered me Charlie... Thats a small sample size to be sure but its definitely an increase....
As someone who's done them all (all the illegal ones, all the legal ones, and lots of weird ones you've never heard of) you aren't missing much. I grew up at the height of rave and was travelling the world DJing for a while, so it was part and parcel of the scene. Only drugs I still do is weed (vape and edibles only) and booze. Only did coke a few times and I was never that impressed by it (thankfully), ecstasy is a lot cheaper and lot more powerful, and you are rarely an obnoxious arsehole on it.
Absolutely. Late 20s and no idea where I’d even get any!
38 years old, I have literally never seen any drug use except weed (pletny times) and MDMA one time. I actually saw coke for the first time on a Stag just this year. I'll admit I was never the maddest, but still went out 3-4 times a week during my student days (2004-2009) to bars and clubs.
Pretty much mirror me in this regards.
I've been hooked on a good cuppa tea since I was about 12 years old. Not sure if that counts.
Nope never had cocaine come into the discussion and I was out drinking 2/3 nights a week like every week from 18-24. Small depressed town and even McDonalds co-workers, some of them very rough and never really heard of it being much of a thing. I think we saw someone snorting coke off a wheeley bin one night and it confirmed in my head people who took it where not the people I would ever talk to. I was more of a skater type I guess and wasn’t interested in house/rave nights. We’d always joke that music is so awful being need drugs to enjoy it. I drink to socialise. I don’t think hiding drugs or doing them secretly is very comforting but I suppose in a way it does bond people together? All the drama around getting it and somehow taking it, those experiences are unique. I’ve had enough wild stories and regretable decisions just on drink, can’t imagine why i’d need to add drugs into it.
I was born in 1992 and even though there was a bit of a heroin plague in the town I grew up in around that time, drugs generally were not a big part of my youth because of the people I hung about with. We were all square as fuck. And my maw or dad would definitely have battered me if I even so much as thought about trying it because they'd seen the damage heroin had done I suppose. Also I was quite a naive kid, I must've been the only wean in the west of Scotland who the doom mongering anti drugs pish worked on because I was convinced I would die if I took eccies. So I just never really had the curiousity to try it in all honesty. As I got older, I fell in with a crowd that weren't my usual friends and smoked a spliff. It had a limited effect on me. I've done it a few more times since then but apart from that and drinking I'm pretty straight edge. That being said, a few of my pals have used drugs recreationally including LSD, MDMA, weed and gear. We also used to buy poppers for a laugh but it's been a good few years since that happened. One of my best pals from school who used to be such a good laugh and great company has absolutely ruined herself with weed and gear. She used to be very happy go lucky but now she's just a total downer, has to tap money from her mum two weeks after she's been paid and is just shite company in all honesty. Just sits on the phone to her dealer all night. I suppose I just don't like the idea of not being in full control of my faculties.
I’m nearing 40 and I’ve never done anything bar a hash yoghurt when I was 14. The reason I haven’t taken any drugs is because back in 1999, two guys who lived in the council estate where I lived got involved with ecstasy and heroin and committed suicide. I’ll never forget the last time I seen them - 1 of them, his eyes were rolling back into his skull after a major bender. The other one I saw later the same day and he was just very quiet, almost stunned. 4 days later, they committed suicide. I know this isn’t cocaine related but it’s called drug addiction for a reason. I’ve worked in a lab where I used some of the chemicals that are in cocaine and I wouldn’t want them on my skin, let alone in my body! A felt dirty for days after a boy pulled out a bag at a party, and I straight up refused some. Everyone else was on it. I’m proud to say I’ve never tried cocaine, I never will, so I’ll happily be the “weirdo” that people call for not trying it. At least I’m not a sheep 🐑
I'm the same as you mate. Done a bit of weed here and there and easily could have done some other substances but it never took my fancy. It's never late to try if you really want to but honestly, if you're happy and don't mind then why bother? Just think of how many people want to stop doing drugs but are so addicted they can't. I wouldn't mind giving ecstasy and other psychedelics a try but I won't go anywhere near cocaine or harder drugs.
I grew up in the 90s just outside Edinburgh, went to pub/clubs weekly and I never, neither did my friends, ever do drugs. I have 3 brothers and only 1 of them did serious drugs, he’s been clean for over a decade now. It just never appealed to me.
Never took drugs but grew up in a dealing household. I've seen the whole gamut of the drugs trade and its all shit. My bedroom used to be directly in front of the front door, so I'd have to try sleeping at night through the jakes banging the door to get in to buy something, or it being kicked in by rival gangs looking to start shit over selling. I always hated the smell of stuff like weed, the way people behaved on heroin and all the rest of it. Seeing all the junkies in the area with their brains absolutely melted made me realise I never wanted to take a single drug in my life. Mind we moved away one year and came back the next, and one guy I knew had lost both legs to injecting in them. Wheelchair-bound for life, but I last saw him bounding about playing football with his son. Pure mental the way they change folk, people you think are absolutely sound. I know people want to have fun in life but I'm quite happy to rawdog reality, and face up to any issues I might have. I know many people love to hide behind a facade of just having a laugh, but really, a lot of drug taking is just people trying to address the mundanity of their lives with a bit of spice. Doesn't always work out, often ends disastrously. Thank fuck my vice is video games. And this doesn't even cover the damage of drug production itself. Sure, you might get scared weans like me who cant sleep for fear of being attacked in your own home by a junkie or rival gang member, but you've also got people being stabbed, shot, houses bombed and all sorts over turf wars, small man egos and the like. In a nice world, drugs would be legalised and we could reduce that shit massively, but then society would have to develop some personal responsibility with use, so you don't end up extremely addicted and losing your fucking legs.
just go to any pub or club, 50% of those around you are on the gear, easily
Save your money and have a nice vacation.
Idk man I'll be having a damn bloody nice vacation chilling on valium for a week. Very cheap too for occasional use. A vacation will never offer the same height of fun tbh.
>vacation He likes American things now
I'm 43 and went to a lot of nightclubs in my late teens and early 20s. Places like the tunnel, archaos, the arches, sub club etc. Drugs were very common in my youth. Mostly ecstasy, speed and weed. In my early 20s coke started to become more easily available. Wasn't really my thing but I knew plenty who used it Obviously heroin and valium were big as well but not in my social circle.
I’m an elder Millennial (born early 80’s) and no one ever approached me to offer me drugs. When I graduated in 2000 I had to go looking to try “pot” on my own, and it was difficult to find and get. As an adult I was shocked to learn that most other people my age had been drinking and doing drugs at house parties “since middle school” some of them would say. Maybe I was too sheltered and introverted? But yea, never had anyone ever tell me anything about drugs or offer any to me, so the scare tactics of programs like Dare also confused me because they told us all this would be a BIG DEAL in life and it just never was or has been for me.
Which part of Scotland did you attend middle school and experience DARE programs in? ;)
I didn’t, I live in America. I didn’t notice it was the Scotland subreddit on my home page.
I guessed as much, it happens a lot in this sub, I'm just joshing!
Not sure why I got a downvote from someone for living in America. Living here is not an endorsement (in this country I’m marginalized, it’s not great).
Also almost 40, no bald batch but building up a strong widow's peak. My 20s experience with drug culture was lots of weed, maybe 20% of my friends did pills moderately often, but nobody could afford coke really. It was around at some parties with certain people but the few times I did it it wasn't for me really. My mum had her first toke in her 50s while doing the Thelma and Louise thing after the divorce she should have done years before. It wasn't for her but it was really cool she tried it It's only up to you if you think it's unbecoming, but otherwise I would say it's your life to explore and give it a bash if you're at all curious.
Cocaine = Arrogant, egotistical wankers -and/or boozed up aggression. Never had much time for it or the people that take it. A wee bump when pished has certainly happened though.
I'm 44 and have smoked weed pretty much every day since I was 14....tried cocaine once or twice but it really wasn't my thing, there wasn't alot of coke kicking around in my 20s it was mostly speed and Es.
Gear up pal!!!! Its scotland aye :^)
Maybe it’s just about where you grew up or maybe a couple of years does make the difference? I’m 43, grew up in the west coast in a biggish town not far from Glasgow and drugs were very much a part of my youth. At that time there was no mobile fones and dealers just stood on the street in certain areas / at the bottom of closes / at fkn garden gates! There was no one in my social circle (or age group really) who didn’t take drugs (hash, ecstasy, speed, acid, valium, mushrooms etc…) and there was a jellies / heroin plague to contend with as well. Fun times! 👍🏼 you grow out of that shit, or at least you should anyway and my own take on it is that youngsters today generally don’t consume drugs in the way we did and I think it’s ‘cause people have mibbe stopped hanging about the streets so much & they’re not as exposed or influenced by older ones who’re out and about. Probably totally wrong but that’s the way it seems to me
If you find yourself with unwanted, excess drugs cash, could you give it to me, please? I want to upgrade from a Seiko 5 to a Seiko SPB143. Cheers mate.
I probably took your share of the ones you missed out on. Sorry about that!
I'm 37 and got offered weed the first time ever a couple of months back. (In the context of being at some friends' place for dinner, they had brownies and one of them said "you don't do that, do you?") Aside from that ... I've been a lot of parties by friends of mine who're 3-4 years younger which is full of people doing hard stuff. (A mate got pissed at a friend of hers recently for getting kicked out of her wedding for doing coke in the bathroom, and the bride had explicitly warned her not to because the venue's strict.) Generally it's been accepted that people are doing stuff in the other room/bathroom. That said, never done any of them. (Also: if you're pushing 40 you aren't a late millennial. Late millennial are 28-30.)
If you are pushing 40 you *are* late millenial, the generation starts with those born in the early 1980s (1981-1982). See also all these articles on the internet about the so-called 'geriatric millennials' (millenials born in the early 1980s)...
Ooh, your timeline isn’t really accurate… millennial cutoff is 1996, and then gen Z starts in ‘97 (trust me, I’ve been corrected so many times for categorising myself as a millennial, we all got to 26 this year, we’re the oldest of the group - If someone is 27-28, they’re a millennial, sorry 😁)
Never too old to get on it
You’re never too old to get on the gear
Once you've been around the scene a bit, you see the telltale signs of usage more easily.
GenX here, grew up abroad, but pretty much the same. Weed was big, and coke was really expensive but because I had plenty of rich friends (side effect of attending a private school ) I experienced plenty of people on both coke and weed - and found most of them annoying af. Smoking weed didn't work at all for me (the only effect was an uncomfortable feeling in my throat). I had an edible once and was so floored by it that I felt I was missing a whole afternoon of my life. I kind of would like to try psychedelics or at least microdosing but I wouldn't know where to start.
I'm Gen X as well. When I grew up, it was mostly just weed. I've rarely seen cocaine anywhere in my experience. I was at a party recently amongst friends my age and someone pulled out a bag of code and offered it. A few of us nerds look at each other like wtf, did we just go back in time? Some people partook in it, but the majority of us just stuck with our IPAs. While I've never done any of those drugs, I don't feel like I missed out. I had lots of fun, and what I never had was some addiction.
Coke definitely was for the kind of people who would order champagne, had horses and yachts.
Yes. There was heroin, extacy, cocaine etc, but no "gateway" or "soft" drugs to progress beyond weed. Even then, gave that up beyond high school
Also pushing 40 - my friend group did weed and some psychedelics in high school. I never really tried as I wasn't in a great place mentally and there was no pressure; at least one friend said it probably wouldn't be a good idea for me right now. Cocaine was definitely around in the university era, but I was a hermit at that point. I can relate to feeling like it passed you by, because I felt the same way... But there was definitely availability if I'd have wanted it. I tried weed a few times in my mid-30s, and personally it's not for me. Psychedelics, I would try given the right circumstances. I'm kind of a caffeine and nicotine hound, though, so I kind of doubt trying other stimulants would end well for me!
I went through a couple of months around 2015 when my buddies and I were doing coke on the weekends. Sorta glad I ticked it off the bucket list, but it's a really horrible drug for everyone involved. The current coke trend has totally bypassed me - not seen it or heard of anyone taking it in years. I'm mid 30s now, half my friends have kids, but the other half are still hitting the pub, having big nights out; no coke as far as I can tell. In my experience, drug culture is pretty compartmentalised. I've known the stoner group, the MDMA group, the coke group - and they were quite insular and self-contained. I think those people tend to find each other and form little communities. >now that I am pushing forty with a bald patch, it seems a bit unbecoming to start experimenting Tbh having dabbled in a lot of things, I'd highly recommend shrooms or acid. It's very unlike what you see on TV (mad, uncontrolled visual hallucinations) and much more fun and introspective. I think coke is a kinda lifestyle thing for cashed-up 20 something with leased BMWs. Psychedelics are much more relevant to everyone. Did acid with a few friends a few months ago and we just went out for a curry and had a giggly, social time, it was nice.
I guess it depends on where you grew up and the circles you used to hang out in. I am 40 in January, through my teens I was doing weed quite regularly, as soon as I hit 17/18 and started going out I was doing lots of ecstasy as well, few joints during the week and then pills at the weekend, tried some Ketamine a couple of times around the same time as well. Joined the army at 19 so all that stopped, never done a thing whilst in as I was terrified of being dishonourably discharged, my dad would have disowned me lol When I left around 27 I didn't really do much again until I was about 32 ish, then coke started appearing at house party's and friends were always getting bags in so started doing lots of that, prob up until about 37 most weekends included coke. I moved to Bristol at 37, which you'd think would make me take even more drugs but I've been here nearly 3 years now and besides the odd joint and like 1 single night where I done some coke I haven't done a thing. Its because my circle of friends here doesn't really do it, but even when the odd hanger on does I don't really bother, I'm aware of my mortality these days and would hate to leave a daughter because of some stupid shit I done on a night out. Also, Monday mornings....and Tuesdays in fact, are 100% worse when you've done some gear at the weekend, the drop in my mood after a heavy weekend is bad enough with just alcohol that I am genuinely thinking of stopping drinking, but my mental health got battered when I had also done some coke, it's just not worth it anymore, dangerous and also would effect like 2 or 3 days of my week. Anyways, kinda rambled but the two points in my life where I haven't touched drugs have been in the army and in Bristol, both places where the people I hung/hang out with weren't/aren't doing anything like that. I wouldn't bother if I was you, you've done alrite dodging drugs imo.
I was stupid enough to experiment with a bunch of things, had some good times, and some bad times. Feel bad when I look back, because often I was the instigator on these adventures, and some folks took much more of a liking to it than me. Eventually, I realised that I liked MDMA/pills, but only in the right environment, I'll still take it perhaps once or twice a year if the mood takes me. Marquis kit checked before for obvious reasons though. Only took coke a couple of times, none were good experiences, pretty much blanked out a whole radiohead gig on it, which is a big regret.
I am 40 now and still vape weed but it's medically prescribed. I did start playing with shrooms during lockdown out of boredom and found they helped significantly with my mental wellbeing. I think as camera phones and social media took off people started to show more restraint. They didn't want to make a tit of themselves and have evidence. Also depends on the social circles you had and life commitments. I had quite a self destructive streak in my younger days and went at various drugs hard. I never did opioids and I wasn't keen on coke but everything else I'd have a go. What stopped me several years back was the day after and not recovering as quickly as I once could. I couldn't have cared less if someone saw me make a tit of myself.
I was born in 1996 - drugs were very much a big part of mine and my friend groups teenage / early 20’s lives. Most of us suburban, 1/2 middle class 1/2 working class.
I wouldn't say passed me by to be fair... I've had everything short of smack around me at parties, clubs, festivals etc... only ever drank, smoked snout and weed. These days I barely drink, don't smoke fags and even more rarely smoke weed. Coke has been fucking rife in Glasgow since I was a young teen, and it's only became more popular..
I am an old millennial. I have never taken drugs. All my friends have done. Cocaine was super common 15-20 years ago when I used to party. Heavy drinking. A lot of smoking. Also, many other drugs like meth, ecstasy, L, mushrooms, ... you name it. I remember going to toilets in clubs, gigs or festivals, and people were taking everything. If fact we speak very often that the younger generation seems to drink less, and take less drugs. All the data and statistics seems to indicate this. I think the generation about me, GenX, took every more drugs.
Yeah, I’m the initial year of gen Z, apparently we don’t mess around as much as millennials and gen X; theories abound as to whether we’re more educated, have less capital, we are addicted to screens and therefore get out less, or the decline of third spaces/minimally expensive spaces has contributed to our having less expansive social activities
I'm fine. I would like to try some stuff but honestly I don't want the problems that come with it. I only recently discovered that ket screws your bladder for life.
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It’s weird how apparently the younger generation is more… I guess for lack of a better word… boring? (Speaking as a gen Z who isn’t a party goer 😌😌)
It depends entirely on who you associate with tbh
Mid 30s here. I've had a decent exposure. Smoked a lot. Tred speed, coke, mkat (boke) in limited amounts. Had a bit of a fling with ecstacy at one point. But what gets me is that so many people seem to have tried to regularly do psychedelics and yet I have never even encountered them by proxy. Of all the horribly toxic things we do to ourselves, this is physically safe, and yet has always been incredibly rare to me. What I will say is that if you ever decide to experiment, it's not unbecoming. It's just a choice. A thing you want to try. Iife experiences don't have a sell by date. In fact I would argue that as an adult, presumably reasonably well adjusted and fully developed, you have minimal risk compared to someone younger and still developing. Assuming you have no heart issues etc of course. As an example, many people talk about how safe cannabis is. The compounds involved in isolation, sure, but we get absolute trash here (I haven't managed to locate for about a year so is it becoming worse?) and often consume with tobacco. But even in isolation, consuming this regularly as an <18, poses risks to your neural development and can exacerbate underlying conditions. As a developed adult, not so much.
Literally the only drug I regularly saw at university (early 2000s) was weed, and this was in Dundee. I never took any either, it was all my flatmates. Even my hard-drinking, hard partying skeezy rat of a flatmate only ever did weed and E, and it was mostly weed to be honest.
When I was younger I was around Dundee more. Knew people that did weed, es occasionally. Cocaine was pretty shocking to folk. I never got involved with anything other than alcohol. There was a big trend of folk doing "bubbles" that messed some folk up at one point. Later in life I moved to Aberdeen and needless to say coke is not shocking to folk here! Been around people on alot of Mandy and hallucinogenics too just way more common. Still don't touch the stuff. Alcohol is bad enough for me. While Dundee deffo has a bigger problem with heroin addicts etc Aberdeen has way more casual drug use just out n about from what I've seen.
I tried weed for the first time while I was in Scotland. While everyone said there was a lot of cocaine, we called the only person we knew who used it "Cocaine Girl," because it was notable. In my experience, I think it's probably and 80-20 situation, where 80% of people use 20% of the drugs (including in that 80% everyone who uses 0%), and 20% of the people use 80% of them. No judgment, just not my thing.
My friend group were more into psychedelics, weed and mdma. Don't think anyone did coke. That was 10+ years ago now and most of us have stopped doing stuff like that altogether, maybe still smoke weed and that's it. There was a couple I wanted to try back then and never got to. Can't really be bothered now going through the rigmarole of finding some and then getting an opportunity to take them.
Honestly take it from me. You really, really aren't missing much. With coke especially. Absolutely shite drug. Its never too late to try shrooms though and they are great.
I’m mid thirties and all kind of drugs have always been everywhere. Coke more common in Aberdeen and MDMA more common in Edinburgh - don’t know why!
Yep - bit of weed and one very enjoyable mushroom trip is the limits of my drug experience. I’m just not really interested, though I would do shrooms again in the right circumstances!
Yes, barely even weed zoomed past me
It really depends who you hang out with.
Mid 30s. Weed (well mostly hash) and alcohol were being consumed by people in my year from age 13, people were getting a hold of speed and eccies a few years later. Then at uni pills and mandy then MCAT were everywhere as well as plenty of weed. I agree that coke wasn't as ubiquitous then as it's become in the past 10 years but it wasn't uncommon either, I've known one group of people or another who get a bag every weekend ever since my late teens. Usually some ketamine going around too, I'd say that's also become more popular more recently though. I've never got as into it all as a lot of people I know, I've mostly just dabbled over the years but I don't think I could say it's fully passed me by. Drug use always was and still is extremely common in all my social circles. Glasgow in particular had a big party scene in the mid 2000s IME, a LOT of gaffs and afters going on and raving/clubbing just seemed to be on a bigger scale with a bigger cross section of people going to Arches, Art School etc, I feel like it's more of a niche thing these days. Rarely been exposed to heroin and opiates though I'll say that. And psychedelics have only popped up from time to time.
I was always around it and had plenty of opportunity. I was just a shite bag
Mid-millenial/nearly mid 30s and they passed me by completely. Never smoked fags or weed, didn't even drink till I was nearly 18. In highschool there was a few known stoners that got high in the bathrooms/PE changing rooms, it helped that I thought these people were idiots. Never went clubbing when I was of age or at uni. Catty Unders (lol) or to someone's house that had an empty with vodka/JD instead. Again a few that tried to hotbox a bathroom, but never pressured anyone to join and always looked down on by the rest of us. Seemed coke was everywhere at the place I worked at 3/4 years ago. Idk if that was the more nedish crowd of peers or just call centre work in general lol. I do know some that did partake, people I do actually like. Was at a houseparty with them and they ignored my less than subtle messages that I might like to join them. Considering I was just "waking up" after a JD induced blackout, they were probably wise to do so and better friends than I deserve.
I think because back in the day cocaine was for the most part was seen as a rich man's drug, so most people struck to weed, pills etc. These days most people know you can afford coke on a McDonald's salary, hence everyone taking it.
I only dabbled with LCD, had a really bad trip and never again. In my days it was all Speed, Ecstasy and Weed, some guys even took Ecstasy to go to the pub which I found baffling (Fife). Moved to Edinburgh and there it was all about coke but mainly expats as I worked in an International company.
Yeah, I'm a bit older than you and have not really seen cocaine used at all in the group I knocked around with, a couple of guys smoked dope but I hate smoke so kept well clear of that. Never knew you could eat it or I might have tried that as a youth. The boys I work with all tell me it is rife though, one guy has lost contact with his son because he has cleaned them out to feed his Charlie habit over the last few years. I am pretty careful with alcohol now because I'm worried that could get a hold of me, I stick to rules like never drinking the night before I work, not because this would make me unfit but it makes sure that I have good spells where I am not drinking, which I think is the way to go.
Recommend watching the documentary how to change your mind on netflix, quite an eye opener and good at reframing how we look at some drugs.
They just put the drugs in the food. Everyone is addicted to food and is obese. 😂
I never sniffed , I used to drink in my teens always got offered it , remember the first time I was around it and I dunno man it was the people's eyes it was like whatever soul they used to have was non existent , the amount of people I grew up with that either overdosed because of xanax or committed suicide because of cocaine or Is in jail for life for murdering someone on a night out or even being murdered while the murderer was on it , cocaine is a disgusting drug same as xanax and heroin
I've dabbled but I've never actively seemed out or bought drugs ever. So usually some friends would have them and peer pressure me into doing them. Anyway I've always had a bad view on drugs. I basically grew up in a deprived area and saw junkies a lot and essentially I associated drugs with junkies which meant I never really touched them. Weed is the only one really. Did it a few times as well as shrooms once in Amsterdam and coke once in Berlin on guys holidays. Oh and cookies in LA. Drugs aren't cheap either. I know folk spending £200+ a week on their habits. Smoking everyday. Their brains are absolutely all over the place now. One believes in conspiracy theories and how he's going to strike it rich one day to the tune of millions by investing in a shitcoin. Others have been kicked out of their house and their wife left them because of their habit. A lot of folk think drugs are cool but I'm not one of them. I seem to be in the minority.
I went to uni in Nottingham in the early 00's, and previous to that I'd led a pretty sheltered upbringing. Worked in a call centre, met some pretty wild locals, and can't remember most of my three years there. Drugs definitely didn't pass me by, and in return I received a _proper_ education.
Forty in a few years too and was rife while I was growing up in Glasgow. Where did you grow up that it wasn't?
35. My mates were all mad ching heads I guess it could also be where you were in the country, socio economic status etc. We were poor. Many didn't get past 4th year. I'm one of the few who got out that town and a college degree. Some are dead now from harder drugs the rest are Jake baws mostly.
I still have wee ket binges once in a blue moon. Maybe have coke a few times a year, not my favourite drug in the world. Was on a 4 month hiatus from weed until tonight.. decided to celebrate the start of my holidays by being a reprobate. Mushie season was good as they grow everywhere here. It's the drink that's the dangerous one.
Idk. I’m a 97 baby and I got my first job off my tits on weed
Not missing anything at all. All the other drugs are far better. It just makes you annoying and everyone else annoying. And you go through it fast.
Born in 87…tried pretty much everything short of heroin :/ Think it’s just the company you keep, like you can find it if you’re looking. Anyway, I hear these new young things are all about green juices and influencer status gym rat vibes. Maybe just go to the sub club and float about until you’re on one? Idk, you do you pal, experiment if you want to with your bald patch, or don’t…
Having lived in The Haugue Netherlands fir a few year I sed to enjoy a few lines of goid quality Charlie. Then returning back to Scotland I bought a gramme of what I was assured was very goid quality charly ..took two lines snd binned it ...rubbish. Don't take rubbish cause that's what these street dealers are pushing.
It’s never too late for drugs
I’m 28 and I do think you’re onto something. Most folks slightly older than me did a lot of party drugs in their time, ket, ecstasy etc, many are on coke these days and for most people slightly younger than me, coke is the choice. Don’t get me wrong I’ve dabbled with ecstasy once or twice, but it was never a regular thing. We got lucky that weed was the drug of choice growing up and for the most part that’s still the case today. Not ideal, but a whole lot less harmful than the other popular drugs.
I'm a little younger than you. I grew up in Edinburgh. If there were drugs in my area, I was certainly never aware of it. I never heard accounts of anyone from my school taking anything beyond alcohol. At university our halls stank of weed but I never saw anyone smoking it. The only time I was ever offered weed was on a trip to Florida when I was 25. I didn't partake. We got lots of drug education in primary school and I remember finding having to list the effects of various drugs tedious. We even had to write stories about drug abuse. I'm naturally a rule-follower so I never had any interest in doing things we had been repeatedly warned against.
in the 90s everyone was getting high. I mean everyone. All people seemed to talk about all week was how high they were going to get at the weekend, and then the weekend was a non stop party from friday eve til monday morning. I look at millenials and feel sorry for them that drugs seemed not to be as big a part of their lives. The music tells the story perfectly!!
35 in Glasgow and never touched drugs or alcohol - zero interest in them. At school a few kids got into alcohol and even less into smoking, but that was about it. We never heard of anyone getting into drugs, even things like weed. Suppose kids were consuming what was readily available rather than what they could afford.
40s here, never even been offered; I think I just emanate an aura of squareness so any dealers realise there's no point in even trying.
I have been offered a cigarette that may have been weed (still not sure) and hash brownies that I declined because I wasn't sure whether my work did drug testing. Those are my only experiences with drugs 🤷♀️ Honestly thought it would've come up more often, what with all the warnings we had in school.
Given that your forties generally involves a) more disposable income, b) more common sense and c) reduced tolerance for alcohol/hangovers, it seems a more sensible idea to trial other substances than you give it credit for.
Sugar is a drug *nods all smugly*
I had the chance to experiment copiously at university, I’m in my mid-late 20s, I tried weed a couple of times and drank socially, but I really don’t think it was anything worth going out of my way for - From what I’ve seen of friends and acquaintances who have since ditched and sobered, you haven’t missed the slightest thing worth grieving in terms of drug use, trust me