uownme said:
What are the long and short term side effects of cocaine? I know like addiction and weight lose but what are the others? I am just wondering why it is just about the worst drug in everyone's mind...
Side effects? Usually the side effects of ANY drug are mitigated by the lack of accurate memory of what it was that happened, changed, that made the person 'high'. Cocaine usually always makes a person feel pretty happy and confident, at first, and side effects include wanting that happiness and confidence again and again (the best way I can describe a cocaine high is that it totally removes your normal demand for a REASON to feel happiness. You realize that you can be happy without having a reason, and you
really do feel an amped up happiness. I use happiness here as an example because its what 99.99% of us want to be.. right now. Its where we tend to go, if allowed/if we allow ourselves.) Whats usually forgotten is the horrible realization that its 4 am and theres no more coke and you know you wont approach sleep for a good 3-4 hours. Thats 3-4 hours of hateful misery, and theres nothing you can do about it (crack is far worse than powder cocaine in this area.) But yeah, the feeling when you first take it is great. Cocaine was used in all sorts of 'medicine' in this country untill the early 1900's, though the doses were pretty small I think.
When I said side effects are mitigated by memory that applies more to the hard drugs like LSD. In that case, your awareness is opened up to a different nature of things, and its a view that shatters previous beliefs and assorted mental security blankets. IF you took LSD and remembered in detail what it was like, you couldnt function in society, obviously. You wouldnt be crazy, but your perspective just wouldnt corrospond to any mass shared beliefs. So like sleep to a cocaine high, forgetting is sometimes the best answer to the riddles of what harder drugs do. Then too, side effects are connected to the individuals own mental construction. Some people cant handle anything sweeter than ice cream without adult supervision --forget about cocaine. They would probably sell their house and pimp their wife to keep getting high. People with more discipline can experiment with a bit more bravado, though even this carries certain risks. The current laws for example.
Drugs *do* open up your perspective, generally speaking, though the opening depends on the drug. Some create a alcohol-like familiar opening
(pot), but others blast a moon roof through the top of your consciousness!
and theres nobody to help you back but you (LSD.)
Cocaine is safe to try for an adult and reasonably disciplined mind, and all that talk about it being the 'worst' drug is a bunch of horseshit. Propaganda. But I said 'try' --I didnt say become a coke addicted male prostitue living in a den of iniquity and filth because you sold everything to buy more coke. Its good, but its not THAT good
p.s. yes i've tried everything i mentioned in this post.
