• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I’m not directly experienced, just throwing that out at the start.

    There are things more addictive than cocaine, like heroin. NEVER, ABSOLUTELY NEVER do heroin.

    But if you do end up being a coke-fiend, that does suck. And it seems the individual often has very little control of their ability to get addicted or not.

    I’d never touch it. At least not before 80. I don’t think it’s worth the risk.

    But I also don’t think it’s beneficial to lie and exaggerate in order to promote drug-phobia.

    I had a friend who was addicted to coke for a very short time. Another friend, found his stash, flushed it, and threatened him with life-changing consequences. He quit, and has been successful since.

    More recently, I went to a bar with a person I knew from the Internet. When he went to the bathroom, another patron told me, “after the third coke joke it’s not a joke”.

    There’s also the more modern danger. If you think you’re doing cocaine and it’s actually half cocaine, half fentanyl (much cheaper), then you’re probably dead. Maybe they didn’t intend to cut it half and half. Maybe they just didn’t stir well.

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      One of the best things about the Anarchists Cookbook:

      “You want to smoke pot? Here’s how you get and smoke pot. You want to drop acid? Here’s how to get and drop acid. You want to snort coke? Here’s how you get and snort coke. You want do do heroin? You have to be fucking NUTS to want to do heroin, no, we aren’t telling you that.”