@Mezz 534011 wrote:
Only things that limits my use of both now is lack of people to take it with ( most my friends have kids so cant ) and lack of access ( lost touch with most my former suppliers or they stopped dealing ). Certainly wasnt my choice to cut back or stop lol
happened to me shortly after I moved out of SE England to the East.
I also gained other responsibilities I didn’t have in my 20s such as reaching a management position at work and also other stuff which I would not be able to do as well if I still had a party lifestyle due to the recovery times required.
Vulnerable peoples safety depends on some of the equipment I work on in my day job and even with the radio station I don’t want to click the wrong button on a remote connection because I’m sleep deprived or still buzzing and put someone elses show off air by accident.
I can fully understand taking a great deal of drugs in your teens/20s because life is boring without them as thats exactly what I did but when you are younger usually there are other people looking out for you and covering your back when things go wrong which is fair enough but everyone will have to grow up some time.
I’m also lucky to have a job which is tolerable and I am valued and non (or light) drug using friends in the local community of a very wide variety of ages which I think makes a big difference.
The harsh facts are not only does the large bulk of the UK’s population (including very progressive minded folk) actually cope with life without constantly being on drugs (including alcohol) attitudes have definitely changed even since the 90s. People are actually more tolerant and less judgmental about drugs but more aware of their risks and how easy it is for recreational use to become problematic.
When I was in a radio station during the late 1990s we were racking up lines of amfetamine on the emergency CD kept in case the Queen Mother keeled over (she was still alive then though in poor health), which is how we did the 6 hour overnight broadcasts of anything from house to breakcore (there wasn’t enough hard drive space to pre-record shows like we do today). Today all our EDM and alternative presenters are stone cold sober and even bringing a bottle of wine into the radio station to share is done furtively and there are concerns over reputational damage, diversity (even though we don’t currently have any Muslim presenters), not setting a bad example to teenagers etc…
