The Other Pandemic - Cocaine

I mean I wouldn't mind a weeks party on the beach in Columbia once a year and just limit coke intake to that week. That's probably the healthiest way to do it, if I don't od. Would be hard to explain to the wife though, might get away with it once.

Only a scumbag would post that, so Macca and Jagger are scum, a lot of people would do anything to sleep with them, millions of people paid good money to see them live. Can u say the same about yourself.

I find these comments fascinating in they are so misguided.

Once they are adults they can do what they choose. My like / dislike is irrelevant - a life spent living by the rules of your parents is a life wasted - it's their life not yours. Not withstanding the fact that one can love their kids without approving of what they do.

As a parent your natural reaction is to wrap your kids in cotton wool but good parenting is overcoming this reaction and allowing them to live their lives freely. This is a general rule not related to drugs exactly.

In fact a life without bad choices or risky behaviour sounds a bit sterile to me.

I know a guy who used to take coke regularly on the weekends. His reason for taking it was simple, he was a lightweight when it came to drinking. So instead of going out at 8pm and having to go home at 11pm steaming drunk he'd pull out a baggie take a few bumps and drink and stay out drinking with the rest until the early hours of the morning. Adding to that, I've heard that sharing good coke with a partner for a heightened sexual experience is also widespread.

That last bit is dead right. Plus whatever options that existed prior to getting into whatever immediate high they get into suddenly end up looking a lot less interesting when they get used to the alternative. Take some real commitment to keep up with your semi professional tiddlywinks career when a coke binge is an ever present temptation.

I thought knocking the towers was supposed to stop this ?

To the fans of cocaine, how do you rationalise the fact that you have to source it from crime gangs? There is no other way to get it, so you're putting money (indirectly at least) into the pockets of the Kinnehans and the like.

While you can argue for it to be legalised, the fact is that it currently is illegal. And by consuming it, you are both breaking the law and increasing the hold that gangs have...

Precisely what Relax Brah said above and I'd add that my own view on my own behavior is that the state chose this route with its drugs laws. Who are these law makers to tell me what I can or can't do to myself?

I'd rather buy a quality product from a proper vender but we are where we are.

The war on drugs has failed miserably around the world. It's just a fact of life that people will use substances like this. We have for thousands of years.

The sooner politicians have the bravery to accept this the better for everyone.

Regulation of some sort is at least worth a try. We can keep wasting resources and locking people up til the cows come home but there will always be someone else in line who wants to make money selling this stuff.

yes those people. cos it's their job I should just obey them? blindly , just because....

If you want to obey the law cos some special interest group in the Dail decided make a bill . fine, do that. However I've one shot at life and I'm not bound by others curtailing what I want to do to my own body. Any law that curtails the freedom of an individual is perversion. It is immoral (IMO) for the state to control my day to day life. If my occasional cocaine use is that hill to die on so be it - I'd rather it was something more noble but the civil liberties argument due to covid restrictions had been made multiple times over the last year or so - so here we are.

I'd suggest , if you have the desire , read Frédéric Bastiat the law. his views has somewhat shaped mine.

if you want another thread on this beyond the drugs issue we could go for hours

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i think i see what our problem is , and your right it would take more than a thread on boards to solve it for you .

in short you being happy in the short term is more important that people around you being happy in the long term.

thats fine for you but that mentality fails when other people with the same mindset start to effect your life negatively

at the end of the day it comes down to a lack of personal responsibility leading to a general lack of social responsibility

Its a good drug but I don't like the violence associated with it