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Look, I'm not a narc, I support decriminalisation, and I don't want to put a dampener on the day, but my word. The flagrant and open usage of gear at the game yesterday was jaw dropping.
And I work in advertising.
I went to the loo during the long injury break and was surprised to find the packed toilets were full of people not going for a wee, instead people openly snffing from bags
Saw 2 QPR fans fighting as we got in, both visibily charged up
Saw a few lads really looking quite worse for wear and in bad ways
Lads in front of us, oldest 18 max spent the whole first half ringing one of their Dads to come and meet them. Dad arrives and starts dishing out the packet onto their fists and they start sniffing in the stands and vaping relentlessly
I'm not an idiot. I know it's endemic in the UK and would the same in any away end, but the openness, brazenness and volume of consumption really caught me off guard yesterday.
Got to be one of the worse drugs out there. Lump in the throat, talk absolute shite and you think your Billy big bollocks!
Now Magic đ on the other hand is a misunderstood medicine, notice how I didn't say drug. Absolute life changing as long as you have a good set and setting.
Coke has been around football for absolutely donkeys years!
I would have thought that the amount of time that coke has been around would have been counted in mule years?!
Couple of bits - when we came out of lockdown this was absolutely rampant. I remember one of the Peterborough away games was absolute chaos, but it's calmed down a lot recently.
The dogs... I couldn't possibly comment but I'm told you get paid very handsomely as a private third party company for providing those dogs to events. Whether they can actually do what's advertised on the collar, and it's not just Joe Dog Owner rolling up with Rover for a nice side gig on the weekend who's to say...
Think these days the dogs used are more likely for flares etc not drugs , was told at boro a few years ago that anyone who has a vape is likley to be stopped as well as the dogs struggle to know the diff between vapes and smoke bombs and flares.
Top Tip , if your travelling with somebody to a game and want some fun drop some dog treats in there pocket before you go in , fido can never resist a meaty treat while on duty.
Got to be one of the worse drugs out there. Lump in the throat, talk absolute shite and you think your Billy big bollocks!
Now Magic đ on the other hand is a misunderstood medicine, notice how I didn't say drug. Absolute life changing as long as you have a good set and setting.
Coke has been around football for absolutely donkeys years!
I raise you Acid (LSD) it's the best feeling in the world especially accompanied with a banging 8 hour Trance set đ
The drug trade bringing coke from South America is a brutal, vicious, cruel business. Having a few lines for fun puts money in the pocket of very nasty people and means more people down the chain are cruelly exploited.
Since we are on the subject, if you have an hour, there was an interesting interview a few days ago with Maureen Tkacik about her recent article The Narco-Terrorist Elite.
'But Rubioâs approval ratings are the highest in the Republican Party, even as he is the architect of what is arguably Trumpâs single most cynical policy: the scheme to appoint drug cartel bosses and their cronies atop the governments of every Latin American country, in the name of fighting drug cartels.' https://prospect.org/2025/12/2
Interesting thread - and my first post here. As well as being a Rangers fan I'm also a member of Cocaine Anonymous and have been clean for 8 years now. I'm based in Birmingham mid-week and most of the lads in the meetings I go up here are football lads - mostly Birmingham City and West Brom (maybe Villa fans don't take drugs lol) - so I know its been part of the culture for a few decades.
My partner lives in Hammersmith and I'm down there with her at weekends. ironically, she's Colombian, and I've been over to cali a few times with her family and seen first hand how the trade has affected her country. Her nephew was shot dead at a game over there a few years ago by a coked-up fan so she would never go to watch football until I finally won her round early last season. Being from Liverpool originally (and part of me will always be an Everton fan) QPR were always like a second team for me and we started going to watch them last season - and she loves the Rangers vibe now.
The buzz in the R block when Rangers score down the Loft end is better than anything I've ever put up my nose!!!
Interesting thread - and my first post here. As well as being a Rangers fan I'm also a member of Cocaine Anonymous and have been clean for 8 years now. I'm based in Birmingham mid-week and most of the lads in the meetings I go up here are football lads - mostly Birmingham City and West Brom (maybe Villa fans don't take drugs lol) - so I know its been part of the culture for a few decades.
My partner lives in Hammersmith and I'm down there with her at weekends. ironically, she's Colombian, and I've been over to cali a few times with her family and seen first hand how the trade has affected her country. Her nephew was shot dead at a game over there a few years ago by a coked-up fan so she would never go to watch football until I finally won her round early last season. Being from Liverpool originally (and part of me will always be an Everton fan) QPR were always like a second team for me and we started going to watch them last season - and she loves the Rangers vibe now.
The buzz in the R block when Rangers score down the Loft end is better than anything I've ever put up my nose!!!
Interesting thread - and my first post here. As well as being a Rangers fan I'm also a member of Cocaine Anonymous and have been clean for 8 years now. I'm based in Birmingham mid-week and most of the lads in the meetings I go up here are football lads - mostly Birmingham City and West Brom (maybe Villa fans don't take drugs lol) - so I know its been part of the culture for a few decades.
My partner lives in Hammersmith and I'm down there with her at weekends. ironically, she's Colombian, and I've been over to cali a few times with her family and seen first hand how the trade has affected her country. Her nephew was shot dead at a game over there a few years ago by a coked-up fan so she would never go to watch football until I finally won her round early last season. Being from Liverpool originally (and part of me will always be an Everton fan) QPR were always like a second team for me and we started going to watch them last season - and she loves the Rangers vibe now.
The buzz in the R block when Rangers score down the Loft end is better than anything I've ever put up my nose!!!
During my younger years the social circle I chose to mix in was awash with drug consumption. None of the local lads in Wembley appeared to be users but I'd opted for a 'West End' or non mainstream lifestyle and mind altering substances were endemic in that scene. While I occasionally joined in, I've never had an addictive trait, even found quitting smoking quite easy, same with going from a serious to a 'social' drinker. Many, if not most of the kids I knew used drugs because they didn't have enough money to buy alcohol, which wasn't an issue with my immediate group as we all worked construction or related good money manual jobs, the majority of the crowd we hung out with leaning more toward arty occupations."
Cheers for the welcome. I do love the forum, especially the post-match punditry. Addicts in recovery are usually still very obsessive. My partner loves the games and then gets on with her life between games - which I struggle with. I'm on a couple of the QPR fan facebook groups but there is often a lot of negativity after a defeat and reverting back to "Time for Julien to go".
Feels like halfway through last season was a great time to become an obsessive Rangers fan - new manager now, young squad who might be lacking in experience but make up for it in passion and natural ability. I see getting into the premiership as maybe a 3 year project. Looking forward to going up to Stoke on saturday now - my kids live there and are both Stoke fans so if we don't win I'll be getting terrorised all night!
Once someone takes certain drugs of choice, the addiction for many is almost there from day one.
As addictive as alcohol, but with most drug taking being an illegal offense and sales taking place on the black market, the addiction leads to crime in a way that alcohol consumption doesn't, in the fact its much cheaper, legal and easy to access ie not from some dodgy drug lord as against Tescos or Lidls.....
There are positive reasons for legalising certain drugs of choice, ie the prices would not be extortionate and it would be much like buying a bag of spearmint chews. So those addicted would not have to turn to crime, burgle or become drug dealers themselves to get their fixes.
But would more people try it. More than likely.
Its like trying to change gun culture in the United States. Practically impossible.
Also, even though governments may agree occasionally with the theories behind legalisation to a degree, no government on earth in this country will ever implement it. However, Starmer seems to have messed absolutely everything he's has touched since being in power, he could try, but its simply never going to be.
I gave up drink twelve years ago, due to a serious health diagnosis and it was not easy at all, even my first game at the loft without a minimum two pints was a very different experience, used to it now and it doesnt bother me at all. Definitely much better in everyday life, but I dont mind those that do partake.
Its a culture and drinks less so but still very dangerous for people.
All people that are addicted in any sense, wish you all well.
Interesting thread - and my first post here. As well as being a Rangers fan I'm also a member of Cocaine Anonymous and have been clean for 8 years now. I'm based in Birmingham mid-week and most of the lads in the meetings I go up here are football lads - mostly Birmingham City and West Brom (maybe Villa fans don't take drugs lol) - so I know its been part of the culture for a few decades.
My partner lives in Hammersmith and I'm down there with her at weekends. ironically, she's Colombian, and I've been over to cali a few times with her family and seen first hand how the trade has affected her country. Her nephew was shot dead at a game over there a few years ago by a coked-up fan so she would never go to watch football until I finally won her round early last season. Being from Liverpool originally (and part of me will always be an Everton fan) QPR were always like a second team for me and we started going to watch them last season - and she loves the Rangers vibe now.
The buzz in the R block when Rangers score down the Loft end is better than anything I've ever put up my nose!!!
Interesting thread - and my first post here. As well as being a Rangers fan I'm also a member of Cocaine Anonymous and have been clean for 8 years now. I'm based in Birmingham mid-week and most of the lads in the meetings I go up here are football lads - mostly Birmingham City and West Brom (maybe Villa fans don't take drugs lol) - so I know its been part of the culture for a few decades.
My partner lives in Hammersmith and I'm down there with her at weekends. ironically, she's Colombian, and I've been over to cali a few times with her family and seen first hand how the trade has affected her country. Her nephew was shot dead at a game over there a few years ago by a coked-up fan so she would never go to watch football until I finally won her round early last season. Being from Liverpool originally (and part of me will always be an Everton fan) QPR were always like a second team for me and we started going to watch them last season - and she loves the Rangers vibe now.
The buzz in the R block when Rangers score down the Loft end is better than anything I've ever put up my nose!!!
Welcome, Tony.
And well done on your recovery.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
If they could catch and imprison for life with hard labour the fck pigs who sell drugs to kids outside the school gates then that would be a positive move In the right direction.
When I was working we built Two large office buildings In the middle of Reading, they remained empty and unsold for Six Months, after a few Months I went back to check on both buildings, at the bottom of the outside staircase to the basement car park was a scattered pile of used needles, loads of them, It was also reported that kids were skateboarding there, I dunno what you can do about IT.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
Here in Texas, there is a smoke/vape shop on every corner it seems. And they sell CBD Vapes and gummies with THC. Even the liquor store sell a THC drink, for something like $5. Back in England, I went out for a night and there were loads of young kids there, early 20s. The brazenness of going back-and-forth to the toilet, coming out rubbing their nose, I was shocked like the OP said.
Got to be one of the worse drugs out there. Lump in the throat, talk absolute shite and you think your Billy big bollocks!
Now Magic đ on the other hand is a misunderstood medicine, notice how I didn't say drug. Absolute life changing as long as you have a good set and setting.
Coke has been around football for absolutely donkeys years!
Ironically I realised I had a mushroom chocolate bar in my bag as we were going through the many searches.
Wasnât quite the occasion for it mind you, but pleased that all the dogs and minimum wage lads didnât spot it. Mushrooms at the right time and in moderation are superb anti-depressants IMO, something a lot of people need, and they grow in Richmond Park every year.
Great post Tony, like a lot of people on here I suppose, Iâve partaken and been around coke over the years but glad it never took hold on me.
Always been told that everyone is doing Coke, so it's okay, by the Coke users, of course.
Nope, all your mates are doing Coke as the mates you could have who don't dropped you for being at best weird and at worst a completely paranoid nutter chatting garbage all the time.
Also, there is a case for Coke in moderation, not being that devastating to your health, and it's more likely what it cuts that causes cancer. To avoid this, just check the container for the ingredients label to make sure.
Oh, wait, you cannot, as there is no label, as it could be cut with any old cancer-inducing toxic garbage, and ... eventually it will be. I am sure Mr Dealer does not crack one out into the mixture ... well, not much as he's probably impotent most of the time.
Funny enough one of the Dogs I saw yesterday was being handled by a lady wearing a "Dog Mum" woolly hat so it doesn't entirely suggest that it was a highly trained working hound...
It always makes me chuckle going to the loos in the Ellerslie Road stand before home games these days seeing queues for the sit-down loos. I can't imagine they're all queuing for a poo and are too shy to use a urinal in case someone else catches a glimpse of their knob...
Spare a thought for all the thousands of people with Urology issues, you certainly don't walk around with a sign on your back and then there's men with prostate issues, it's not about being shy for a lot of people.
Yup there's queues but people are doing it because they need to not because their a fan of George Micheal or want to take a hit on some Charlie, the Rs are my choice of drug.
Great post. For example my father has / had bladder cancer and needs to pee often. Thatâs difficult enough at LR but for a time had a bag which can be embarrassing. So he would choose to go in a cubicle. I expect there are many like him . I also accept that there will be a fair few on cocaine . Coming from the underground music scene of the last 30 years I have been around a lot of bad substances . At one stage almost everyone I knew was doing drugs recreationally which when I look back is just awful. You were an outlier if you declined. I look back now and hold them people to higher regard. Good for them . I also look back on the Covid vaccines argument from the time , and whatever your argument or view point was / is , it seemed hugely hypocritical to me that the same people who were putting âstuff up their noses for the past 30 years with god knows what in it every weekend, argued they werenât going to get a vaccine because â you donât know what they put in itâ.
Ironically I realised I had a mushroom chocolate bar in my bag as we were going through the many searches.
Wasnât quite the occasion for it mind you, but pleased that all the dogs and minimum wage lads didnât spot it. Mushrooms at the right time and in moderation are superb anti-depressants IMO, something a lot of people need, and they grow in Richmond Park every year.
Great post Tony, like a lot of people on here I suppose, Iâve partaken and been around coke over the years but glad it never took hold on me.
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Haha that's classic. I couldn't imagine tripping at a football match. It might just make those dull QPR games more interesting, lol.
I've done magic đ 3 times in the last calander year. Life changing full stop. The war on drugs from the US absolutely killed what potentials we would now have in front of us for helping our mental states in a variety of what are now Class A drugs. Heroine and đ should never be spoken about in the same class of substance. I did a lot of research on how I could improve my own mental health and came across Magic đ and I am absolutely astounded in the magic of their existence. It really is like pulling the veil off on why we exist and I always find I come out of the other side of it feeling much better about life in general and I'm now not afraid of death like I used to be.
Big bug advocate on them. Educate yourselves if you are having a hard time mentally. It's not for everyone but for the majority it definitely will be.
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