When did coke become socially acceptable?

you clearly haven't a clue what you're talking about and you're putting words in my mouth because i never said no one's ever in harm from taking drugs, i said relatively speaking cocaine is safe compared to other drugs like alcohol. if coke and mdma and pills were as dangerous as you say they are there'd be people dying from them all the time in ireland given the vast amounts of them taken every weekend, people crash drunk and die in alcohol related incidents all the time on the other hand.

probably yeah, but i'm looking at it like this, if you were to get drunk af twice a year or do a few lines twice a year, you'd be far safer on the coke than the booze in my opinion. taking either all the time will f*ck you up.

I (44) was on a 2 night stag with the youngest brother (31) a few years back and ALL of his mates were on it. They'd throw a towel or t-shirt over their head, in a bar, in the middle of the day and snort away from a novelty oversized key (think it was a souvenir from Alcatraz) that had a perfectly sized groove in it.

These lads are all late 20's, early 30's... pint-hounds... and just wanted to stave off the drunkness or hangover. Stayed awake ALL night chatting ****. But when they ran out - on the Sunday morning CHRIST were they in some state. Double hangover, no sleep and no more coke. They were fooked!

They seem to be on it every weekend... and I counted that out of say 9 or 10 of these lads, who I know quite well... none of them owned a house or were married (most in relationships). Apart from my brother (married with mortgage)! They all seemed to be happy going from paycheck to paycheck - pinting and snorting... ZERO desire to 'grow up'. All still living with the mammy.

but it was the drink that did you in because booze disables your ability to make rational decisions like taking a taxi instead of driving and impairs your stability and senses so you're way more likely to crash and kill someone. Maybe go and take one of these pressed acid pills laced with fentanyl (LOL) that you were speaking of, might chill you out.

It's rather additive tho and I'm glad I never really liked it much.

I've seen lads almost ruin themselves financially over it. I don't know what it costs these days but I remember in the nineties it was easily €100 for 1g if it was any good. And those lads would go through 2 or 3 each day towards the end of their 'career' - before all their maxed out cards and overdrafts came crashing down on them and game was over. It can be nasty like that some people seem to lose control over it easily enough.

I didn't realise it was that popular in Ireland. I've never seen or heard of anyone use it here. I was offered a chance to snort it off a hookers back in Prague once but that's about it.

Hookers arse/tits?? Bit tame off de back😁

The achoo flu.

Only stupid people think there is such a thing as recreational drugs. There is not. Any one of them drugs be it Coke,Meth or hash could be the end of you no matter how safe you think it is or how much research you have done.

Drugs are only meant to be used by doctors to make someone better.

I have no sympathy for anyone who dies from taking drugs unless they were spiked.

And Liverpool won !

Remember Katy French? And more recently Jamal Edwards in the UK. I think it's pretty rough on the heart so deaths might not be directly linked to coke use at the time of death, but after long term use your heart could be in a pretty bad state and lead to sudden death later in life. Isn't this what happened to Gerry Ryan?

Coke use was pretty open and acceptable back in the Celtic tiger boom years, so I don't think it's anything new. Never tried it myself but I was told back then that it was shite compared to the stuff you'd get over in the states.

Nancy Reagan over here. How could hash or weed be the end of you? should only doctors be using alcohol?

No question your correct ,

Just for correctness sake Katy French had a brain injury form mixing it with ephedrine, but still it was a cause of death ,

People who believe its harmless are just lying ,

You sure you're not getting it mixed up with Raisins ?

Back in the 80's, Geoffrey Robertson presented a stunningly good series of programs for Australia's ABC, called 'Hypotheticals'. One of the best of them was on drugs. One of the panel members was a professor of Pharmacology, who when asked if weed could kill you, answered 'yes, only if a 2 tonne bail of it fell on your head' or words to that effect.

There was even a good question relating to doctors and alcohol. Again the question was put to a Professor of surgery, I think it was, or something like that: he was asked something like; 'if you needed emergency open heart surgery, and there were only two surgeons available; one an alcoholic, who was sober, but wanting a drink, and the other, a heroin addict who was actually high at the time, which would you choose to operate on you?'

Without the slightest doubt or hesitation, the professor chose the high, heroin addict over the sober alcoholic, and then gave a detailed explanation as to why.

Probably the most eye opening TV program I have ever watched.

Alcohol is probably the worst of all the drugs consumed, so the OP asking about the 'social acceptability' of coke, a far less pharmacologically dangerous and socieatally damaging drug, being used in venues designed for the consumption of alcohol, is near hilarious.