Cocaine "is no worse than whiskey" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whose nation is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter.
Am I nuts, or would legal coke just result in people switching to meth and other amphetamines?
Idk. I have watched people discover Darknet markets for years now, and the most common line of thinking that I see whenever someone tries good cocaine for the first time is “I wish I could sustain this feeling for longer, and cheaper.” Everyone is always eventually disappointed by what cocaine can offer.
Yeah cocaine is like the most overrated drug ever. So overpriced and that shit lasts like 40 min maximum before you need to do more (and the diminishing returns are immediate).
Not a fan of stimulants in general, but coke is definitely more often than not a status thing (in the US at least). You have to be rich to be able to afford that habit.
Yep. Plus they did it by weight, and were about as dishonest about it as you can get… Most of the weight is baking soda, but they weigh the entire rock anyways.
But they do (or at least did) that with everything. I remember that teenager in Texas being threatened with significant prison time for weed brownies because they weighed the entire brownies rather than just considering the THC content.
Am I nuts, or would legal coke just result in people switching to meth and other amphetamines?
Probably! And the nice thing about meth is you can manufacture it in your own home!
Fun facts about meth
Seriously, don’t fucking try meth, and especially don’t try to make it in your own home. That shit will destroy you, and I say that as the child of a former meth head.
Every time I get a cold and have to stand in line for sudafed I think about how meth has inconvenienced me in a (relatively minor) but super annoying way. I think I’d rather people do weed or coke so I can shop unobstructed.
Back in my adventurous days, I tried lots of stuff, and I also found coke to be no big deal. It just didn’t do it for me. Neither did alcohol. Weed was my drug of choice, probably because I was a creative type, and weed inspired creativity more than any other substance.
Everybody wants something different from their drug of choice.
Not op. Coke gave me a loooot of energy, tooo much energy to sit down but I couldn’t think. I just kind of jumped/moved around a lot. I’m usually very mellow. My drug of choice has always been weed too. I’m not a creative type but I love analyzing data while high. I can focus better and I have better judgment. If sober self can’t decide on something, my high self can. It’s weird.
Yeah, the energy boost seems to be the primary attraction of coke. Back then i was a runner and weightlifter, and always had plenty of energy pumping through me. I didn’t need that boost. I still don’t, which is why i don’t have an attraction to energy drinks either.
I did understand that another effect of cocaine was a sense of supreme self-confidence, which i didn’t need either. Not that I’m that confident anyway (or wasn’t back then), but drug-induced self-confidence wasn’t something i valued. I took my confidence from my accomplishments, and my ability to i teract with people. I wasn’t the life of the party, but i always had friends and relationships that were satisfying.
I suppose coke provides advantages i don’t need, while weed does. Alcohol has more of a numbing effect, which can be helpful if you are trying to supress bad stuff. I dont have that problem, either, or at least i have better ways of dealing with it.
Yeah. I lived through the 80s. Coke is BAD. Much worse than booze.
Now weed. That’s a perfect good.
Making it illegal just causes more problems.
Not commenting on that. Just saying that the comparison made us absolute bullshit
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Am I nuts, or would legal coke just result in people switching to meth and other amphetamines?
Idk. I have watched people discover Darknet markets for years now, and the most common line of thinking that I see whenever someone tries good cocaine for the first time is “I wish I could sustain this feeling for longer, and cheaper.” Everyone is always eventually disappointed by what cocaine can offer.
Yeah cocaine is like the most overrated drug ever. So overpriced and that shit lasts like 40 min maximum before you need to do more (and the diminishing returns are immediate).
Not a fan of stimulants in general, but coke is definitely more often than not a status thing (in the US at least). You have to be rich to be able to afford that habit.
Crack was much cheaper. This is why crack was so heavily criminalized while powder cocaine was not.
Yep. Plus they did it by weight, and were about as dishonest about it as you can get… Most of the weight is baking soda, but they weigh the entire rock anyways.
But they do (or at least did) that with everything. I remember that teenager in Texas being threatened with significant prison time for weed brownies because they weighed the entire brownies rather than just considering the THC content.
Probably! And the nice thing about meth is you can manufacture it in your own home!
Fun facts about meth
Seriously, don’t fucking try meth, and especially don’t try to make it in your own home. That shit will destroy you, and I say that as the child of a former meth head.
My mother hung out with meth heads for a good portion of my childhood (the shit you don’t notice as a kid because it’s “normal”), and I was much worse off for it. In the last year I lived with her, I found a shake and bake lab in the basement, which freaked me the fuck out, cuz that’s how you burn your fucking house down and die or end up in the hospital with burns over a significant portion of your body
Every time I get a cold and have to stand in line for sudafed I think about how meth has inconvenienced me in a (relatively minor) but super annoying way. I think I’d rather people do weed or coke so I can shop unobstructed.
I think it’s bad for a very specific type of person, I found it to be pretty underwhelming - like a strong cup of coffee that makes your face numb.
Race numbing led to a lot of atrocities in Central and South America.
Back in my adventurous days, I tried lots of stuff, and I also found coke to be no big deal. It just didn’t do it for me. Neither did alcohol. Weed was my drug of choice, probably because I was a creative type, and weed inspired creativity more than any other substance.
Everybody wants something different from their drug of choice.
Not op. Coke gave me a loooot of energy, tooo much energy to sit down but I couldn’t think. I just kind of jumped/moved around a lot. I’m usually very mellow. My drug of choice has always been weed too. I’m not a creative type but I love analyzing data while high. I can focus better and I have better judgment. If sober self can’t decide on something, my high self can. It’s weird.
Yeah, the energy boost seems to be the primary attraction of coke. Back then i was a runner and weightlifter, and always had plenty of energy pumping through me. I didn’t need that boost. I still don’t, which is why i don’t have an attraction to energy drinks either.
I did understand that another effect of cocaine was a sense of supreme self-confidence, which i didn’t need either. Not that I’m that confident anyway (or wasn’t back then), but drug-induced self-confidence wasn’t something i valued. I took my confidence from my accomplishments, and my ability to i teract with people. I wasn’t the life of the party, but i always had friends and relationships that were satisfying.
I suppose coke provides advantages i don’t need, while weed does. Alcohol has more of a numbing effect, which can be helpful if you are trying to supress bad stuff. I dont have that problem, either, or at least i have better ways of dealing with it.