TBH I agree with poly but perhaps for different reasons, I am not and have never been a regular user of cocaine, and have only done crack on very few ocassions (I can count them on the fingers of one hand, and i am a London incomer to EA, not a native :wink:)
but whenever I did it I always made sure it was good stuff from good sources but even then I felt edgy and paranoid. not so much due to the drug itself but the surroundings and the people you often ended up doing it with or buying it from. Not even that all cokeheads are arseholes – some are actually good people – but the feeling in the back of your mind that the cops might crash the door in at any time, and that if caught for coke then or now you will be judged much more harshly by both the criminal justice system and even your own family than for pills or cannabis or speed – plus the bad karma involved in the drugs distribution and production – there has always been a “hard man” / “gangster” element to cocaine and its the one “party” drug where I am aware of people I know getting hurt (including gunshots) over it.
Also the cokehead circles tended to contain folk much more likely to grass or do spiteful stuff when things go tits up – for instance the chap what shot this chap I knew was in Court and he was clearly guilty and going down for time – in the open courtroom he made a allegation a high school friend of mine was bringing in illegals through his corner shop.
In them days border agency wasn’t as harsh as now (it didn’t even exist) but it was just after the dotcom boom was turning into recession and Britain had pissed all the gains from it up the wall and lost loads of IT work to foreigners and there was a rise in right wing extremism – my mates family shop got all its windows bricked, his mum and sister and other young children stayed there, although thankfully they weren’t hurt the shop was driven out of business.
All these people (including the gunman) were once good friends what partied together….
