Thoughts on monday

Hubble-bubble pipe or hookah

When I was a child we had one of these in the house, I always thought it was for opium smoking but no it was for the use of flavoured tobacco smoking!  It fascinated us as children as did the big brass Russian samovar.

Well not mixing politics with drugs, I shall only mention Gove in passing.  Why? because I believe that the moral laws of yesterday are somewhat different to the more modern morals of today.

Over the weekend my grand daughter went to a music festival, she is a sensible, intelligent girl, but then thoughts of Ecstasy and its sometimes fatal end, and or spiked drinks and we all get worried, especially her mother.  But as we know we all go through 'rites of passage'.

The question that went through my mind though was, are drugs a 'class' problem? Ask on that Google and you will get Sajid Javid making claims against Gove for obvious political reasons.

There is a forum I read on which someone who seems to be on a high most of the time with his gibberish talk frustrates any sane comments, note I said forum not blogs ;)

To be honest I have never taken drugs, never wanted to or was interested in them, my cousin brought back from squats in London, inlaid with grime and  his face a green pallor that was my antidote. He was also brought back from India, the 'in' place to be in the 60s. The family cared.

Paul after leaving art school, made his way to Japan to study there. On his arrival standing on Tokyo station late at night waiting for a non-existent sleeper train, he was rescued by a night worker, who phoned the police, who came and took him to a hostel.  His life panned out differently in another country but drugs were not on the menu, neither was much else as he lived in poverty for a while.

So are 'recreational' drugs bad? As we know the question divides into two, the problem of the user and their reactions, and the problem of the people who sell drugs and live in a criminal world.

p.s. A facebook message flashes on my screen, "Matilda arrived home 11.30 last night and is now sleeping it out on the sofa"... all is well that ends well.