Recreational drugs

The term recreational drugs always puzzles me. I've never met anyone who's said 'no, I never take recreational drugs. Strictly for business purposes only.'

Apparently the drug du jour is Ketamine, Ket, K, Special K, vitamin K, bump, cat, Valium, Kez, Kezzle, Kezbar. It's horse tranquilizer. No matter what you call it, it's still horse tranquilizer. Anything that can tranquilize a horse surely isn't going to be good for you. Maybe I'm just not wild enough.

I think it's a Class C drug, but I'm not really up on the classifications. Last time I asked for a Class A I got a Mercedes. To be honest if you go upto someone smoking weed and say 'is that a Class C drug mate?', they'll just agree that 'yeah it is a pretty sweet drug'.

Having said that, without drugs, Aldus Huxley couldn't have written his book 'Doors of Perception', Coleridge couldn't have written 'Kubla Khan' and neither could most of the stuff in the Daily Mail. All of the paranoia and depression in their headlines has to be the result of a bad trip, which I imagine to be like going on a coach trip to a funfair at Margate with your nan - involving terror, lack of control and cosmic entrapment. Or maybe that was just my nan.

However you look at it, drugs are bad for your wealth. Not something you want to get into. A friend of mine used to be a drug dealer. She worked in a pharmacy.

Time for one more pun?

I heard there used to be an ecstasy bar round here. It's gone to pot now though.