Very interesting post - Im sure the mental health crisis in this country has a lot to do with more and more people turning to drink and drugs as a way of coping.

30/40 years ago drink driving was seen as socially acceptable and was common place despite the obvious dangers. Nowadays, most people find it totally unacceptable and rightly so!
However, some of those same people see some use of recreational drugs as socially acceptable. It’s not.
The use of drugs socially is why levels of most serious violent crime are soaring. Shootings in inner cities are usually down to rival organised crime groups fighting over drug turf. Burglaries, robberies, theft of or from vehicles and mostly committed by people trying to fund drug habits, be it cocaine, heroin, cannabis, Khet etc isn’t relevant. The use of drugs in society is rife but completely at the heart of most criminality nationwide. There’ll be people who agree with me and people who don’t. I don’t know how or if we will ever stop it. It’s a debate that would take far too much time to have properly on a forum like this.

Spot on pal

Give over. It’s a widespread social activity that is in the most part totally harmless. Murder isn’t.

Make it legal then (cocaine) together with heroin and sell them in pubs and clubs. Once it's settled in there then let's start selling them in schools.
Oh and bullocks to the poor saps in Columbia who should be grateful that the west needs these harmless drugs because the no marks who use them don't give a flying shoite about anything other than themselves.

Totally harmless? Really? Honestly? Jesus...

Jesus wept!!

That’s the most gob smacking post I’ve seen in a long time on here. Seriously ill educated post.

If you had experience of being on the other side of someone on a cocaine fuelled rampage trying to restrain them or trying to deal with them and seeing them go through into Acute Behavior Disorder (ABD) which is a life threatening condition and then had to perform CPR battling to keep them alive, watching as paramedics and air ambulance perform life saving treatment on the street, you would never say such a ridiculous thing.

You're right it's totally harmless. It's produced and shipped by the entirely willing who are paid handsomely so some 20 something from Wigan can't snort it up his nose.

How can you be so blissfully unaware or willfully ignorant of what these drug gangs do to the people in the area to ensure constant supply? I'll give you a hint: murder, rape, kidnap, extortion. Brutal acts of violence.

I remember hearing a story where part of this one gang blocked the highway and waited for a bus to come along which was packed. They had it drive off the road into the middle of nowhere. They killed the women, children and elderly and had the men fight to the death - if they didn't they would find their families. The winner had the "honour" of working for them to traffic drugs across the border. If he refused, they would find his family.

Totally harmless indeed. And that's assuming that the person taking it is okay on it.

Wtf are you on about? No one sells alcohol or tobacco in schools ffs. Legalise it and “the poor saps” in Columbia would be on the same footing as a tobacco farmer. And nobody except you mentioned heroin, the use of which can in no way be described as a social activity. If you know nothing about the subject perhaps it would be better if you kept quiet.

Why stop at cocaine?
You said it was harmless so why not sell it at schools then?
If you are the sole owner of knwoledge on this subject then the 2 questions should be easy to answer.
By the way if I want to pass comment on total shoite then I will even if you think you are a progressive on a subject that has wider implications than some soft lad having a good time snorting shoite whilst everyone around then and countries of supply are in total turmoil.

I imagine from that comment he or she puts it up their snout also??

Iv been lurking in the shadows of this forum for a few years but this topic is something Iv always wished people talk about publicly. I’m in my 20’s and enjoy a night out and it no secret that certain players do recreational drugs. You could ask 9/10 young people around Wigan and they will have a story about players to tell you (a certain centre especially). I’m just shocked it’s taken this long to discuss. I didn’t mind whilst we were winning but I think we now have to start taking action. Some of these ‘professionals’ are starting to take the mick. Culture or not, your a professional, act like it..