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the joke of the century
god knows how high nancy_reagan probably was when she said that.
funny that many of the people who voted Reagan were huge cocaine abusers since the snow was as much a status symbol asa nice new Beemer or Benz in the driveway
everyone in the trade wanted to make their way up to being a big-time dealer becsause the laws punished the small pushers harder
you get caught with a couple of grams, you're up shit creek
get caught with a couple of Kilos and the cops want the names of your suppliers and the chain of upward and ever cushier plea bargains begins
but a lot of cops were in the game too and if you knew who had been bought or who could be bought, then you knew where when and how to avoid the obligatory stings that fueled the media's need to sensationalize the "war on drugs"
"just say no"
the organized anal_retentive mentality of affluent suburbia met the grand guignol of "Scarface"
there were profits to be made and, after all, the "just say no" years were all about making a profit. it doesn't matter what drug you might have been pushing, the money was too hard to resist in an era where it was even more obvious than ever that money is god
but especially the coke...didn't anyone notice how quick it started falling out of fashion after the '87 stock market crash? Yeah, sure, there was crack, but to people spoiled on Dom Perignon it was like offering up a mason jar of Night_Train
by the early 90's the thrill was gone, some moved on to opiates, some died, some just got sick, some people got clean, some people got clean and got religion too, a few got sloppy and got caught and a few of us walked away as best we could and even if we weren't always addicted to the product, we were addicted to the life. it was mostly easy money and how are you gonna "just say no" to that in a consumerist society
those who say it's easy to do mostly didn't experience the temptation firsthand
i only quit because i knew i wouldn't be lucky forever
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