Cocaine and heart-attacks

[suzzer99]

WTF?

There is perhaps a single predictable time of life when taking crack-cocaine is sensible, harmless and both emotionally and intellectually satisfying. Indeed, for such an occasion it may becommended. Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail". This was a judiciously-blended mixture of cocaine, heroin and alcohol. The results were gratifying not just to the recipient. Relatives of the stricken patient were pleased, too, at the new-found look of spiritual peace and happiness suffusing the features of a loved one as (s)he prepared to meet his or her Maker.

Drawing life to a close with a transcendentally orgasmic bang, and not a pathetic and god-forsaken whimper, can turn dying into the culmination of one's existence rather than its present messy and protracted anti-climax.

There is another good reason to finish life on a high note. In a predominantly secular society, adopting a hedonistic death-style is much more responsible from an ethical utilitarian perspective. For it promises to spare friends and relations the miseries of vicarious suffering and distress they are liable to undergo at present as they witness one's decline.

[suzzer99]

Some more goodies off that same site (I think cocaine.org is basically a pro-ecstacy and other as-yet-uninvented designer drugs site):

Within the next few decades, however, humanity will have the pharmaceutical and genetic opportunity to choose whatever range of the affective axis we wish to occupy as the backdrop to our lives. To date, we have barely glimpsed the potential extremes of the pleasure-pain axis; in the case of the dark side of sentience, it may be hoped (and statistically expected) that we never will. More ambitiously, the new biotechnologies promise to extend our range of choices way beyond tools for crude, unidimensional mood-modulation. For we'll have the tools to re-design the neural basis of our personalities to repair the deficits of natural selection. Even better, ethically speaking, the application of germline hedonic engineering can ensure that parenthood won't entail bringing any more suffering into the world. Misery becomes physically impossible if the genetic code for its biological substrates is missing. Thus having children needn't, as now, entail causing more heartache as well as episodic happiness. Procreation becomes permissible even for the negative utilitarian who finds it impossible to practise ethical parenthood with a Darwinian genome.

[Blarg]

So you're saying I will be able to beat my children, humiliate them in public, and generally do whatever I like to increase their share of life's misery, and they will be so stoned out of their minds that it won't even have any impact either then or in the future?

Hmm, well that's no fun. Guess I'll have to redouble my efforts. Poor things.

[KreellKeiser]

For what it's worth: my roommate used to have quite the coke habit in high school. He was in great shape and played varsity baseball, but did a bit too much one night and had a heart attack. He made it through alright, but maybe that's what the ads refer to.

[Ari Gold]

didn't Tyrone have a heart attack during his $450,000 crack party?

[gunt]

everybody's got to die of something...

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Keep in mind if you do coke on a regular basis you don't usually take a hit and chill, you take a line every hour or so

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You do mean a line every 5-15 minutes right?

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Less is more. I can't think of any reason to do more than 3 lines in a night.

[Ari Gold]

How about this:

you have more than 3 lines in your posession.

[Jonny]

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Although cocaine releases dopamines in the brain for that rush, I'm not so sure your heart would beat _that_ much faster from a line of cocaine or a triple shot latte.

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This is incorrect. Actually, cocaine blocks the reuptake of the dopamine, so there is an excess amount in the brain. No more dopamine is released than normal, it just takes longer to be re-absorbed.

Anyways, its been said that crack is 500x more addictive than powered coke. Of course that is an arbitrary number as well...

[suzzer99]

Yeah. Coke, crack, the key is moderation. I get full after a few hits. I just get up and say "Night boys, I'm hittin the hay". I know my limitations. Crack is really more of a social thing for me.