I understand cocaine and this after doing the drug just one time, and that was over thirty years ago. That may not seem like a very large sample by which to judge a drug by and trust me on this one, I have had this conversation before. I actually advocate the legalization of cocaine.
This isn’t a reflection of how I feel about the drug but how I see drug laws being useless and dangerous. Cocaine is a dangerous drug for all the wrong reasons. It’s something that can do a lot of damage in a very short period of time.
A friend of mine and I went in together and bought two hundred dollars of cocaine one night back in the early 80’s. The woman who was our connection wanted me to try it with her and in a couple of hours things went from exciting to intense to insane to really, really, surreal. I
remember a lot of sex, a lot of music, and a lot of sex. Then suddenly it was all over and all the cocaine was gone.
The dude who wanted his half of the cocaine wasn’t exactly the forgiving type but he knew if he wanted his money back he couldn’t kill me first. I made one hundred and seventy-five dollars a week back then so I traded a week’s worth of work for a couple of hours of fun. Oh, and had someone capable of murder ready to kill me. Considering all things, I got off light.
A friend of mine went deep and believed everything cocaine told him. Life was better when he was high, sex was better when he was high, the joy of existence never felt so good as it did when he was high and he sold his soul to this belief just as surely as if it were a religion.
Getting off coke wasn’t easy but he managed to do it. He had lost his career, his family, most of everything he owned, and nearly every friend he ever had. Worst of all, even though he was clean and sober, life wasn’t the same without his habit. The spark and sparkle were gone. All of the good times were punctuated by serious coke use and now, back in reality, he was home from Disney World forever. Nothing he would do, nothing he could do, would ever match that time of his life when he was on top of the world.
It’s an illusion. He was never on top of anything but some woman selling her body for cocaine, and make no mistake that can be a heady thing. But if a drug is what it takes to make sex great I would suggest you’re doing it wrong. If there isn’t anything in your life that can make you feel like you’ve just licked a lightning bolt then I suggest you get out more, or just go deeper within.
I say legalize cocaine and let those who want to wallow in it go for it. For those who want a hit every once in a while, turn them loose and for those of us who will never get near the stuff, well, most of us don’t care.
What you need to feel the way cocaine makes you feel already exists inside of you. If you can’t find it without a drug, you’re the last people on earth that should be using.
Take Care,
Mike
Mike writes regularly at his site: The Hickory Head Hermit
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4PM Friday ~ Hey guys, lets pool our money. We’ll get an eight ball and party all weekend.
11PM Friday ~ Hey guys, er, um… anybody got any more money?
I suspect most people who’s lives go down the drain on coke, would have done so with some other excuse. Most people that screw up their lives with drugs, do so by running afoul of the law, not by doing the drugs. The very idea that the government can protect you from yourself, is ludicrous.
To be fair, though, they’d probably screw up their lives if it were less illegal too. Been there, done that. I managed to avoid arrest, ever, but my life was plenty messed up.
By this time it ought to be clear to everyone drug laws produce criminals, not less drug use.
Everyone who isn’t making money on illegal drugs, that is.
Agreed. Indeed, legalize all drugs for adults. Use half the tax money (Yes, you can tax it!) for education and treatment for the unfortunate addicts and things will shake themselves out as they have in other places. Use, and more likely and importantly, abuse, should decline rather quickly when the stigma is removed and treatment is more widely available. There are proven models of this in society to learn from, albeit on a smaller scale.
P.S. Heeyyy duuude, can you tell I was high when I wrote this?
Have you ever looked at you hands? I mean, really looked at them?
I’m a firm believer that if society would legalize everything, there would be no more crime. Just think of all the money we would save then.. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
We should outlaw Justina Beaber and then only outlaws would have bad music