Cocaine

[LeFinPepere]

Why snort something that's probably been smuggled inside somebody's bowels?
Don't take me wrong, I've had my fun smoking pot and doing acid.(Yes! tell us about, Grandpa!) It was good fun.Then it got boring,and I quit.Never did coke, and the folks I met who did it where arrogant nitwits , so , that was it. I really disliked the 80es , clothes , hairdos, music, coke, it was 95% ludicrous. Now, I may smoke a few puffs once a year, gaze at trees and birds,then feel sleepy and dumb (which I probably am)..Since I play guitar and write "funny" songs, some people assume I do drugs,("Where d'you get this idea?Drugs, hey??") and ...ah, forget it! About 10 years ago , I've seen my teenage step-daughter fight (successfully!) her heroin addiction,and I became somewhat tedious on the subject of "recreational substances". The hardest drug I do is pear liqueur. (And , yes, Spirit was a mighty fine band!)

 

[Boneman]

The was a famous black comedian, now in disgrace, who did a solo routine in which he delivered both sides of a conversation between two people:

A: So like, why do you do cocaine?

B: Because it intensifies your personality.

A: Yeah, but what if you're an a--hole?

And of course there was Rodney Dangerfield, "I don't like cocaine, I just like the way it smells"

 

[Teleguy61]

Where I lived, heroin was the heroin of the eighties.

I understand that.
Bad bad bad bad bad stuff.
Cut with fentanyl, it is cheap compared to other drugs.
Meth and smack are tearing up the poorer states in our nation.

 

[Canard]

The other consideration here is what coke money is doing to Central and South America.

You snort a couple of lines here. And pones un par de clavos en el ataúd de alguien al sur de la frontera.

 

[matsickma]

I probably shouldn't put this on here but I'll be subtle.

I didn't do much drugs. A little bit experiment here and there as a youngster. Never anything consistent other than drinking. So years go by and college ends a I get a job related to the defense industry. No problem. Drug free. I then find a new job and delay my start date from April to mid July. Essentially thinking this will be my only extended work break until I retire. I'm in my early 30's enjoying a few months off and run into a friend and two young ladies. Listening to the band and having a beer they offer to go out to the car and do a few lines. Now work free to enjoy the moment I agree to go out to do the lines and continue fun for the evening.

Two weeks later I start the new job and find out I need to apply for "approval" to work with a DC agency! This is more than a defense job!
The forms and details of putting your life in writen documentation is really extensive and every name and street name of every drug you ever tried is required listing AND every single time you did it is required listing! Now as a low drug user I thought this was easy. But in the summers between college even infrequent tokes of a joint adds up to a big number!

Make a long story short my historical drug use was way in the past. But that one slip-up occurance of a "line" was recent and not something to be ignored.

When showing up at our agence referred to as "Ft Meade" and being wired up for the polygraph that was part of the "life style" investigation I answered that investigator with the honesty that I would not tell a priest on my death bed!

I am certain that if their is a place like Heaven where you need to recollect for all the things in your life St Peter isn't the guy at the gate. It a former Ft Meade polygraph investigator!!

I didn't do any illegal substance from that point on for the rest of my life!! Over 35 years later I get nervous when I smell in the distance the modern "skunk smell" of weed!
M

 

[Canard]

Hey... I just received a trophy shortly after posting to this thread.

 

[fronobulax]

I probably shouldn't put this on here but I'll be subtle.

I didn't do much drugs. A little bit experiment here and there as a youngster. Never anything consistent other than drinking. So years go by and college ends a I get a job related to the defense industry. No problem. Drug free. I then find a new job and delay my start date from April to mid July. Essentially thinking this will be my only extended work break until I retire. I'm in my early 30's enjoying a few months off and run into a friend and two young ladies. Listening to the band and having a beer they offer to go out to the car and do a few lines. Now work free to enjoy the moment I agree to go out to do the lines and continue fun for the evening.

Two weeks later I start the new job and find out I need to apply for "approval" to work with a DC agency! This is more than a defense job!
The forms and details of putting your life in writen documentation is really extensive and every name and street name of every drug you ever tried is required listing AND every single time you did it is required listing! Now as a low drug user I thought this was easy. But in the summers between college even infrequent tokes of a joint adds up to a big number!

Make a long story short my historical drug use was way in the past. But that one slip-up occurance of a "line" was recent and not something to be ignored.

When showing up at our agence referred to as "Ft Meade" and being wired up for the polygraph that was part of the "life style" investigation I answered that investigator with the honesty that I would not tell a priest on my death bed!

I am certain that if their is a place like Heaven where you need to recollect for all the things in your life St Peter isn't the guy at the gate. It a former Ft Meade polygraph investigator!!

I didn't do any illegal substance from that point on for the rest of my life!! Over 35 years later I get nervous when I smell in the distance the modern "skunk smell" of weed!
M

I too had a poly so I could support the same Agency. Between the polygraph and on tape conversation the US Government has a tape of me admitting to misdemeanor possession and misdemeanor sale of marijuana.

The poly was October 17, 1979. I remember that because I left the poly and drove to Baltimore where a friend was gifting me a ticket to the 7th game of the World Series. I enjoyed watching the Pirates win as I had been following them closely for the previous couple of years.

 

[fronobulax]

I don't really like Clapton so this is my cocaine musical reference.



The reference to cocaine in the chorus was apparently added during live performances and not found in the original lyrics.

 

[Brad Little]

"Did a line of coke, felt like a new man. 10 minutes later, the new man wanted a line...
I did a little bit of everything in the '60s and '70s, never heavy use of anything other than beer. With weed soon to be available OTC, I might try some sort of edible, might not, definitely won't use a smokable product, haven't smoked anything in 35 years, so not going to start now.

 

[Brad Little]

Okay, first Cocaine song I heard was on Dave Van Ronk Folksinger LP on Prestige. This is probably my favorite these days, Hank Thompson.

 

[JohnW63]

It's nice to have have anything to add to a thread. No alcohol or drugs at all. I tried to see what smoking was about, but just ended up coughing if I inhaled and having smelly shirts.

 

[Canard]

I heard that Sting, after rehab, actually took out newspaper ads apologising to the music industry and the general public for being such an a--hole while he was an addict, but I cannot find confirmation of this story, so it is probably apocryphal. Nonetheless:

STING REGRETS USE OF COCAINE AND HIS BEHAVIOR

British rock star Sting said Wednesday he regretted taking cocaine during his days with the band the Police and confessed to behaving like a ``total monster'' who got involved in fistfights almost every night.<br> In an interview with the style magazine ``Q'' to be published this week, Sting…

www.deseret.com

He also confessed to being a "total monster . . . competitive, arrogant and aggressive."​

 

[Cougar]

I tried it a couple of times....

Same here. The next day I came down with a nasty head cold both times.

 

[fronobulax]

With weed soon to be available OTC, I might try some sort of edible, might not, definitely won't use a smokable product, haven't smoked anything in 35 years, so not going to start now.

People of a similar age and generation who have dabbled in modern marijuana tell me that things are much more potent than they were. The advice, if I choose to try an edible, is to clear my schedule for the day, just in case, make sure there are people around and consider dividing the edible into two or more "bites". Stocking up on munchies still applies.

 

[Brad Little]

People of a similar age and generation who have dabbled in modern marijuana tell me that things are much more potent than they were. The advice, if I choose to try an edible, is to clear my schedule for the day, just in case, make sure there are people around and consider dividing the edible into two or more "bites". Stocking up on munchies still applies.

Yeah, I've heard that, too. I know a few people who still indulge, including my sometime bass player, so if I do decide to give it a try, I'll check with one of them. More than likely, I'll skip it.

 

[Midnight Toker]

In that video, yes, it's a big band.

But on the LP and radio, it was just the four of them: California, Locke, Ferguson, and Whatshisname.

Yeah, that was just for TV. (Skunk Baxter is even in there!) I saw them on their 84 reunion tour in the tiny old 9:30 Club in DC. (Maybe twice the size of my living room!) It was just a 4 piece, but the damn drums w/ dual side mounted marching bass drums took up 1/2 the place!! Fun show. There were maybe 50-60 people there.

 

[Neal]

I was poor back when I was in college, working a full-time restaurant job, in addition to taking a full load of classes at the University of Virginia. It was among the hardest things I have ever had to do.

Whenever I had any discretionary income (which was infrequent), I would treat myself to a bag of $15 Mexican weed, full of stems and seeds. The very idea of plunking down $50 for a tiny amount of coke that would be gone in 5 minutes seemed crazy to me. Still does.

Maybe I should thank my lucky stars I was so broke for so long at that time in my life. More than a few of my college friends got sideways over cocaine.

 

[dreadnut]

So why would you want to kill your own customers? i.e. Fentanyl laced coke

 

[MacGuild]

Never tried it. I grew up in a rural area where you wouldn't touch anything passing itself off as "cocaine" any more than you'd snort a line of instant mashed potato flakes cut with laundry detergent.

 

[Midnight Toker]

So why would you want to kill your own customers? i.e. Fentanyl laced coke

Yeah, in the 70's and 80's, they only made you leave the party to go home and change your soiled underwear from the baby laxative they'd cut their product with.