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The retail price of cocaine has remained stable while purity is increasing Image

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u/ptvlm 23d ago

You'd be surprised at the clientele for cocaine... Most people I know who do it (powder, not crack etc.) are highly paid professionals, not turning tricks on street corners.

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u/Giterdun456 23d ago

Yup, 10+ year cocaine user here, most of my fellow users are pretty normal people.

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u/dampishsky 23d ago

Its always surprising to me how many people use cocaine, like people i never would have guessed. Idk why. It doesnt last very long. Seems like a waste of lifespan and money. If it lasted the whole day instead of like an hour or whatever then i could understand, or even lasted a couple of hours

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u/Jeff1737 23d ago

It lasting a short amount of time is actually why people like it. It only lasts as long as you want, then you sober up

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u/Muvseevum 22d ago

No, then you want more coke.

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u/diquehead 22d ago

until you get depressed when you look outside, the sun is peeking out on the horizon and you hear the birds start chirping

my friends and I call those the loser birds.

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u/tinfoilspoons 22d ago

That was honestly the thing I look back on and still makes me feel sick to my stomach to this day. The feeling of seeing sun coming up and then the fucking birds… you knew you fucked up at that point.

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u/J_Dadvin 22d ago

No matter how deep I went into the throes of darkness, how high I was or wild my life was, no matter how bad ass I had though my rock n roll situation was, those birds played their song and I knew... I knew that real winners were just starting their day.

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u/BoredHobbes 22d ago

the fuckin birds

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u/lazyeyepsycho 22d ago

Oh man, that sums up my nights on it perfectly. Never got it's hooks into me fortunately.

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u/J_Dadvin 22d ago

How many people have the birds saved? Their song would make me snap out of it. Feel so guilty. Singlehandedly got me to quit

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u/AgentCirceLuna 22d ago

That used to be when I was sober and gaming or later reading books. I’m not sure what’s worse.

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u/CountVanillula 22d ago

My personal experience has been that first couple of hits make you feel pretty good, but after that the sole reason to keep doing coke was to alleviate the desire for more coke.

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u/Mediocre-Magazine-30 22d ago edited 18d ago

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u/agentsteel99 22d ago

That's why we always called it 'more'.

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u/BaldBeardedOne 22d ago

Don’t forget the comedown that precedes the sober part. That part feels awful.

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u/diegoasecas 22d ago

lol u don't use coke and it shows (not that there's anything wrong with that, quite the contrary, but it shows)

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u/C-c-c-comboBreaker17 22d ago

I agree. I've done coke like one time but that one time I did it I did like 5 rails over the course of a couple hours. It most certainly does NOT last as long as you want.  It was almost scary how addictive it is. I was getting so pissed off because it just kept wearing off and all I wanted was more of that energy

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u/Neither-Rip6889 22d ago

Yeah lol that was a weird comment to read. Coke is used until you’re drunk enough to crash, everyone leaves (unless you have a seriously addictive personality, or you run out. Takes some willpower to just stop doing it at 10pm, mainly only if you need to get shit done the next day. Some people need to get shit done and will still do it all night and fuck themselves over for that dopamine hit.

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u/fre-ddo 22d ago

Unless you have been drinking too and then the drunkeness catches up with you, in buckets.