I smoked pot, used coke, ate qualudes, & did LSD twice. Never tried heroin - don’t like needles. LSD was too weird. I have been to numerous parties, attended by doctors, lawyers, business people where everybody in the room was using coke, pot, qualudes, & alcohol. Great parties! I never saw a gun or a fight during these parties. No one ever ODed. No one freaked out seeing imaginary things. Just happy people talking at a hundred miles an hour about nothing, just like cocktail parties. Except for a few obvious slugs, most of these people have happy, successful lives, same as a moderate drinker.
Seems like great times with no drawbacks. Therefore I’d presume you’ve shared these stories with your kids or grandkids and would have no problem with them using cocaine, pot, qualudes, LSD, and even heroine if they don’t mind needles. Maybe you could help them find them. Sounds like your only objection now is age, so why keep these good things that resulted in ‘great parties’ from those that you love?
I don't know anybody who shares their youthful indiscretions with their kids/gkids. Children cannot understand those things. But if they ask me about drug use, I do have some real experience to share, rather that the “Reefer Madness” nonsense the gov’t propagandists peddle. Scare tactics didn't work for sex, it didn't work for alcohol, & it doesn't work for drug use. When the kids see the adults at the family Christmas party "having a big ol' time", they know you are lying about abstinence.
People change as they grow older. I don't care much for alcohol anymore. Makes me sleepy or gives me a headache right away. Loud parties/music annoy me, now. I don't go to rock concerts anymore, but quiet music is quite soothing. Doesn't everyone change over the years?