Breaking Bad Season 1: Episode 4
Added 2025-10-28 00:02:36 +0000 UTCComments
Re the British drug scene, it’s quite widespread, the most common being weed and coke. Ecstasy was huge until a young lass called Leah Betts died while taking it. That seemed to scare a lot of people off taking it. Then there’s the smackrats (heroin), LSD (acid) was huge back when I was in my teens (many moons ago!), amphet (whizz) seems to have been replaced by coke, which was always extra expensive, but now is far cheaper. There’s quite a serious issue with misuse of proscription drugs, especially pain killers. When I was a young-un (13 onwards) we used to drink down the park, and got into pubs by the time I was 15. But that’s canny uncool with the youth of today, they’re far more likely to have a bit of the stinking weed (and are ultimately cabbaging themselves cos the active ingredient in cannabis will prevent the developing brain from properly developing. Imagine 50 sockets and 50 plugs. As you get older each plug gets plugged in. But cannabis has the effect of putting cement in the socket, and will prevent that plug from ever being connected.
Mick
2025-10-29 17:08:44 +0000 UTCIt is interesting, the variations of people and their environments, how they steer or stray you to and from one path or another. A drug free life feels logical to me. Yet, you have those on the other side who tell you to loosen up a little. Different regions of the UK do prefer/have epidemics of different drugs. Coke, heroin and ket all have sporadic popularity depending on town/city. In Manchester, where I'm from, there's a huge spice wave effecting mainly homeless people. It's a synthetic drug that's used to mimic the effects of cannabis. It was sold legally for a time, people got dependent, and now rely on the more dangerously amateurly manufactured version now it's become illegal
Thedoublelook
2025-10-29 00:06:33 +0000 UTC
