Adam.Amy.Alice.Angie.
I realise that through all these garrulous posts I’ve not really touched upon one of the biggest aspects of the culture and that’s drugs…they are as much a part of club culture as music, dancing, lights, sticky floors and bad chat up lines…I shall declare that my stance on drugs is in many camps, I’ve seen what it can do long term and short term to people, places and times. I mean wasn’t the whole ‘Gunchester’ title directly linked to drugs? The current ones sound very nasty as I was reading in the BMJ about the inhalation recreationally of nitrous oxide and some of the conditions associated with myeloneuropathy and peripheral neuropathy, the side effects sound terrible.
Think this may be our generation’s fault in a way, we’ve hounded them away from drugs but yet told them through popular culture and neocapitalism that the profit that comes with the sales of it is good monies. It doesn’t help with this hypocritical government both admitting trying them yet penalising the easy parts of the drugs trade, offering no money to help addiction even going so far as vilifying addiction and it’s associated needs/wants.
*and breath*
Back in the day there was particular nights associated with particular drugs, these symbolised the experiences and what you could expect. Did hear an interesting take on why the all-nighters were set up in the 60’s, it was so people could stay late and get the first bus home in the morning, the drugs to enable this dancing all night came first or later?
Drugs are everywhere, you see the evidence in all places and just in the last week I’ve overheard on the tram (better title than overheard on the dancefloor?!?) school age children talk about what someone on ket looked like as they were acting a bit off after the kids insulted them. Then as passing someone under an influence, heard two older people discussing why people would want to do that to themselves, then seeing an viral video about a certain car manufacture’s product running on pure cocaine.
Drug culture is everywhere.
My own personal take is that for this generation there’s too many mirrors and not enough good drugs. The ideas of this generation have taken drugs and monsterfied them into something away from their original purpose, they’ve taken weed and made it psychotic, they’ve taken any attempt of trust out of experiencing it, they even legislated so heavily against medicinal uses that the researchers are moving abroad to continue this life saving research.
Like any aspect of life, clubs and drugs go hand in hand like this and that, no matter how you police it they’ll always find a way so here’s a radical one shall we try and make it safer for those who want to experiment, yes? Let’s destigmatise all parts not just the cultural accepting ones, let us put some love back into the world please.
Just an idea.
In choosing an image for this post I found it difficult there’s obvious archive images that suggest people may be on something or anything at all but it can so easily be dark spaces and flash photography that aids that suggestion. This picture does not mean to imply that anyone in it is on drugs of any sort, it is meant as a pictorial reference, i.e Hollywood cliché stylised of what drugs look like visually.
This picture does not mean to imply that anyone in it is on drugs of any sort, it is meant as a pictorial reference, i.e Hollywood cliché stylised of what drugs look like visually.
Ciao Bella.