So i was chilling with a bunch of friends on halloween. We were all chilling outside at a local playground and smoking up, like we do almost daily. Anyway a couple of other friends came, and i could tell they were pritty messed up, and i later learned that they had just done coke. I really no nothing about it, i have a lot of expirience smoking pot, but ive never done any other drugs besides salvia. So a couple close friends of mine werent really sure we liked the idea of these guys doing coke around us...but we were also talking about how we might try it. Anyway could somebody explain to me the coke effect? The high feeling? The length of high? After effects? Negatives and positives? The only thing i question about it is the addictiveness. How strong is the addiction, and will i feel it after 1-2 uses? I just wanta get some info before i go and try it. I really think i will like it, because i love stimulants, but thats also what im worried about. I dont want it to become habbit
erowid has a lot of info. I personally dont get much from cocaine, I dont see whats so great about it. Its not that addictive, something about it just always makes you want more. you wont get addicted to anything from once in a while use. Coke gets a bad rap, its not even that strong of a drug. IF you dont want it to become a habit, then dont do it habitually. Coke doesnt have a mind of its own, it cant make you use it more than you want. Also if you live on the West coast, prepare to pay way more than its worth.
i used to really like stimulants to. coke was a pretty big around my friends so we use to do it on the weekends. for me that led to dealing it which allowed me to do pretty much any amount that i wanted to, which wasn't a good thing. so i got hooked and did it daily for about four months. for me though, as soon as my hook up jacked me and i couldn't get any more i didn't have the yearning to go and do it more. i don't know if it was because at the time i was basically getting paid to do coke and now actually had to pay for it or what. i've seen people get out of control with it and blow a lot of money. on the other hand i've been around people who do it recreationally and are responsible. you just gotta know yourself and make a judgment on that. there is potential for addiction though just like most other drugs.
coke high is not that good, makes you feel jittery, talkative, that's about it. my advice...don't bother with it.
Porkstock, are you forgetting to mention the tidal wave of euphoria that crashes through your world? Coke has a heavenly high. Unfortunately, considering the health cost and money cost, it is far from worth it as a habit. It is also -extremely- addictive, I was mentally addicted after doing it ONCE. I couldn't stop thinking about it for the next few months and would always hope there would be access to some at parties. It's worth trying, if you think you can handle trying something that good and then never doing it again.
i don't think the OP sounds like he is... no offense or anything. he just sounds like a pretty young kid. i don't know if advising him to try coke is the best idea.
^ agreed liek yo, just don't do coke, its pretty wack. although good at the same time. smoke your weed and trip.
you wont get hooked after a few eightballs even, but you just have to learn how to control the want. you dont have to try it tho, weed is a more potent type of high anyway.
the reason you get addicted is because it makes you happy. It changes your seratonin levels. Since it's an upper, it raises them, which makes you happy and energized. When you come down you feel sad. I do it pretty often, but when I don't have the money, I just don't. I like to think that makes me not addicted. I know when I need a break and all that. as with anything, just be careful
if your getting good coke it's not necessarily going to fuck you up. coke has a really clean kind of social high. it's a pick me up. around where i live i can get a gram for $50 and that's plenty to last me a while. i used to be hooked on the shit but i've learned to control it. just do it in moderation. and it shouldn't burn when you snort it, if it does then it's cut with something.
have to agree w: mast3reef3r - your friends weren't 'messed up' from coke, unless they were shooting it. If you want to know what coke is like, go to your local espresso shop and have a triple espresso, (not a latte', mochachino, etc), just a triple shot of espresso on an empty stomach - you might be a bit more jittery, but not much. (I wish I had known this 40 yrs and many wasted dollars ago!) Snorting cocaine is NOT addictive, it's habit-forming. Now, if you talk about smoking it or shooting it, that's different matter. You may have some brain chemistry changes that will make you feel like horse-shit after you stop, but I tell you this, you will not have the gut crawling, psychotic nightmare enducing, emptiness from cocaine than opiates will cause. There's so much mis-information and incorrect use of words related to drugs, it's horrid. There is physical addiction, psychological addiction, emotional addiction, tolerance, physical withdrawl, emotional withdrawl and psychological withdrawl - they are ALL different and very distinctly so. Don't waste your money on blow, have an espresso, instead. Absolutely stay away from meth, it's simply an edgier coke. (four shots of espresso?) If it is truly amphetamine, (technically meth-amphetamine), that's another story also, but the 'meth' sold on the streets is chemical garbage - if you're going to smoke/shoot/snort that shit, just take the quick way and smoke/shoot/snort Drano. Stick with the bud, and forget the hard drugs, like nicotine and alcohol: you'll be better off in the long run
