Well Im lucky that my mum was a first generation raver herself, so I have no worries there. Although she probably would have preferred to me to start drugs a little later on, she knew she wouldn’t be able to stop me, so spent more time teaching me safe and sensible drug use, rather than trying to stop me all together.
I think because of this reason Im even better off than someone who has had to take drugs without their parents consent, and learn things just from school, or frank adverts lol. I think I am a living example, for why educating people is alot better than trying to stop them. After all, we are all “free” and It is up to us how we choose to live, to a certain extent. It was also beneficial in smaller ways, such as coming down in the morning after a night on Es. Instead of me having to sneak crisps and shit upstairs to eat, I could sit down with me cereal and not have to worry about me mum seeing my struggle to chew around my ulcers lol. Infact, she used to laugh at me.
My dad, well I dont live with him for a start. But he is very open minded too, although not a raver. He’s like minded like my mum of course, as they were married at one point. So in this respect he treats drug use the same way. Although he only took Es back in the day out in town, and a just had the odd bit of coke. We also used to have a spliff and a beer which was cool. Back when I smoked It.
My nan is a different story, infact the opposite to me mum and dad. A prime victim of propaganda. She is obviously old, and of the generation before mainstream drug use. She used to spend weekends going to the cinema and what not. As my mum was growing up, as a raver, my nan was obviously there to witness most of it. I think she was chucked in the deep end of the drug awareness pool tbh. She didn’t like it at all, but there was far less info for her to look at back then, and what there was, was mostly manipulated bollocks.
She knows, well thinks, Ive smoked the odd joint only. Except the K she found in me room once. That was a fun few days, she rang around the whole family asking what this white powder might be. And of course there’s a few that have no idea and all sorts were sprouting about lol.
In the end I said It was K, and I got her the info off the Internet. I also let her read up on alot of other stuff. She is open minded too, but still was slightly imprinted by the shit she reads about in the Readers Digest, you know.
I think the less shit that goes about in the papers on and on TV the better. Assuming getting rid of drugs is the best way (Not, of course), giving out one sided information, is not the best way to go about it. You cant make people out to be different people by telling the non users that druggies are bad, and do all sorts while under the influence. Attempting to alienate users, into what they think will be a place where we all decide its not worth it. What a waste of time.
Anyway, back to the topic… As Ive got older, Its got even better with me mum. She keeps on wanting to come to the free parties with me and me mates raaa
Sorry for the long ramble post…
