TRAINSPOTTING author Irvine Welsh admits he still takes cocaine — but only in Miami.
The Edinburgh-born writer, 65, lives in the Florida hotspot in winter.
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It is known as one of the cocaine capitals of the world, with 70 per cent of the Class A powder in the US being trafficked through it.
Asked if he still took drugs, Welsh, said: “Not massively. I only take coke if I’m in Miami and it’s good stuff.”
He admitted he also occasionally took ecstasy “if I’m at a festival and there’s some really good stuff going around”.
And quizzed about alcohol Welsh, who has homes in Edinburgh and London, revealed he might share a bottle of wine with wife Emma Currie over dinner.
But he told The Times’ T2 supplement: “I couldn’t sit in a pub all day now.”
The author previously revealed how ecstasy was the key to his success with women in the 1990s.
The acclaimed writer told how the drug “changed” working class communities across Scotland and caused men and women to mix more often on nights out.
And he previously revealed the class A narcotic helped him get his first serious girlfriend.
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The author said: “When ecstasy came into working class communities, it changed a lot of the narratives.
“Beforehand, men and women didn’t really mix. It was like sexual apartheid.
“Where I grew up, the girls would be in the lounge bar and the guys would be in the public bar. You’d meet in the disco.
“You’d sit with your mates drinking. And the girls would be with their mates dancing round their handbags.
“The last dance, everybody would just pile on.
“When I started taking ecstasy, all these women I’d known for ages, but not known at all because they were just the girlfriends or the wife of your mates – I suddenly realised that they were much more interesting than their partners.
“I got a proper relationship with women for the first time. Everything was breaking down.”
