METH is easier to buy than pot in Brisbane and allegedly taken by everyone from stay-at-home mums to police officers, a recovering addict has told Reddit.

User Thatisatastyberger, who claims to have moved to the Queensland capital in 2014 for university, posted on Sunday that he was sucked into taking the drug because it was everywhere.

“In all the places I’ve lived, I’ve never seen it so pure, plentiful and dirt cheap,” he said.

The 21-year-old self-described alcoholic and pot smoker said he was a heavy user of opiates, hallucinogens and ecstasy but had only taken meth casually in the past.

He said he began using ice as a party drug to complement alcohol but soon started taking it in his down time.

After a few months he was taking it every day.

“Even when I was at my worst, my girlfriend was none the wiser and I held down a full time job,” he said.

“On the outside I was still fairly normal, but deep down I couldn’t tell another person to a bar of soap.

“I began to do unbelievably stupid and self destructive things just for the hell of it.”

The redditor said one of the most confronting thing in Brisbane was the diversity of meth users, with someone in every group of society taking the drug including university students, retirees, tradesmen and stay-at-home mums.

He also alleged that he knew two police officers who were taking it.

Thatisatastyberger said nearly every dealer was pushing ice exclusively or as a main product because it was the cheapest drug on a hit-by-hit basis.

“Forty dollars will keep the average person pinned to the ceiling for 24 hours plus.”

Meth is also cheaper to buy in Brisbane, with a full gram costing about $350 compared to $500 to $800 in other cities, he said.

The user said most people he knew would buy large amounts of the drug then sell the majority of it to other people in smaller amounts to make a profit.

He said the last dealer he bought from was a 75-year-old man supplementing his retirement.

The redditor said he stopped taking drugs and drinking on New Year’s Day after a knife-wielding “skinhead on parole” threatened to kill him and another man.

“I had some nasty health complications from the cold turkey withdrawal and spent several days in hospital.

“Seventeen days on and I’m still nowhere close to normal, but I’m miles ahead of where I was.”

The user said despite his experience, he was not anti-drugs but hoped his story would stop others from taking the addictive and destructive substance.

Drug clinic Lives Lived Well’s community services manager Suzi Morris said the redditor was making generalisations about who bought meth and for how much.

Ms Morris said Queensland was no worse or better than the rest of Australia, however the National Drug Strategy Household Survey showed there were fewer identified meth users in Queensland than New South Wales and Victoria.

“It’s just business as usual,” she said.

Ms Morris said people had a stereotypical view of what a drug user looked like but there were equally people out of the spotlight who abused drugs, including alcohol.