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i don't know enough about cocaine and want to learn.
setting aside the axe he has to grind and in the specific context of his comments about fentanyl and whisky, how accurate or inaccurate are his statements? what makes them so?
Going off memory, I think cocaine on its own really isn’t THAT bad as far as hard drugs go, but when combined with alcohol it metabolizes into “cocaethylene” which is highly toxic and basically shreds your heart.
And I’ve never met anyone that uses coke WITHOUT booze.
Its hard to analyze it in its own since its use is as an energy fix in party contexts.
Example, its 6am youve been partying all night and are drunk and sleepy but want to keep partying or need to work, so you snort a line and you can keep it up for another day. You eventually get a massive hungover, so in order to get better you snort another line and so on.
Cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs that exist. Alcohol is ~~barely~~ a lot less addictive.
Meanwhile, severe cocaine withdrawal makes you tired and irritable while severe alcohol withdrawal makes you have seizures and die. Most people who use cocaine never develop an addiction, just like most people who drink never develop alcoholism. As far as addiction potential, methamphetamines, opiates, and nicotine are the worst offenders, as is the crack formulation of cocaine, which is not what's being discussed here
You're not addicted to cocaine until you're poor, until then it's a habit.
If you make cocaine legal, you effectively make crack legal, since the conversion is trivial.
And no, methamphetamine existing does not make cocaine less harmful.
If you make cocaine legal, you reduce overdose deaths significantly. Most OD deaths involving cocaine are due to dosing uncertainty and adulteration with other substances like fentanyl. Legalization would also decrease barriers to treatment and less criminal justice involvement would improve treatment outcomes
That's certainly true, yet I still disagree with the post's claim that cocaine is "no worse than whisky".
This is just wrong lol. "Alcohol is a lot less addictive" while it is the most abused substance in the world
The most abused substance is caffeine.
How often a substance is abused has very little to do with how dangerous or addictive it is.
It's not abuse if it doesn't have any negative impact and unless I'm in denial I'm pretty sure my tea drinking isn't.