one of the biggest reasons why drugs are still illegal today and also why stuff like raves, squatting, travellers, alternative lifestyles are heavily clamped down on is because a fair few of those of us now in our 30s and above quite simply overdid drugs, fucked up their lives, the lives of those around them and caused a lot of burdens to wider society.
there are millions of people out there in Great Britain and beyond who don’t touch illegal drugs at all (and are even moderate in their use of legal ones) and because of what they saw in the 90s don’t feel that we should be cut any more slack.
as an example a young lady I know is convinced they lost the family house partly because her family was lending money to a heroin-addicted relative. Thats the sort of knockback which makes generations of people grow up supporting prohibition..
And yes I have done all the class A’s at one time or another.
But I was lucky.
When I did them my life wasn’t in that bad a state and I had a supportive family (despite being in constant arguments with them over my lifestyle) so I didn’t want to fuck up. But a lot of friends did, and TBH had it been at a worse time in my life I could easily have got addicted to H or crack, and grown up to be complete scum.
incidentally I know in real life two of the people warning boothy against doing H, and we all grew up in the same area and watched class A’s destroy our rave scene
todays teenagers/younger people are carrying the can for this, (this is why there is stuff like undercover cops even at their legal raves) and if they fuck up too, then it will be pretty much impossible to get any sort of tolerance towards drug use for another generation.
