Cocaine: Hidden in Plain Sight

The New York Times ^ | 10 June 2007 | MELENA RYZIK

[steve86]

I kind of scrambled that sentence and then submitted it too early (am I on drugs?), but I meant to add that one of those cases involved a lost security clearance and career at a National Laboratory. The other involved a lost marriage, government career, and 20 years of pension accumulation. Probably wasn’t worth it.

[Calpernia]

Oh trust me, I can scramble a sentence! And I don’t even drink :P

I know what the consequences of drugs can be. I was just making a statement to disclaimer the article. The article really made some insinuations that drugs are wide spread and a way of life. I was trying to add my experience to show it isn’t as wide spread as the writer made it sound.

[HiTech RedNeck]

mys never said she was buying.

[mysterio]

Not fair..... You first.

That's what I figured.

[dfwgator]

“So I asked him, Just what is so wonderful about cocaine? And he said, It intensifies your personality. And I said, All right, but what if you’re an asshole?”
—Bill Cosby

[gondramB]

>>To know the drug trade is to know economics. It is the only industry that without government regulation follows the law of supply & demand.<<

And you’d think a country that owes much of its strength to economics would get that.

[Osage Orange]

You are correct, there....

[Vision]

“You could go into a swanky party in New York and do a line and nobody would notice,” said Mr. Sykes, who is now sober. “Pull out a cigarette and people would think you’d pulled out a gun.”

Sigh.

“When I go to travel somewhere else, people think I do it and they’re so eager to shove it up my nose,” said Roxy Summers, a party promoter and D.J. who goes by the name Oxy Cottontail.

You can't make this stuff up folks.

It seems these problems happen a lot in NYC, let's destroy that island and take care of this any many more problems.

[Dinsdale]

Richard Prior: Cocaine is Gods way of telling you you have too much money!

He knew.

[Silly]

Good one.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I don’t care what an adult chooses to put in their body.

That's because you're a Losertarian who just want free dope and child porn and want to overthrow the government aaarrggghh < /S >

(foams at mouth)

[Osage Orange]

Now just wait a minute honcho....

You made a statement...I asked a question.

Generally what follows a question...or that sequence of back and forth...is an answer.

It's not hard....unless of course you have no answer. Then I guess that IS your answer.

Fair enough.

[mysterio]

Now just wait a minute honcho....

Them's fightin' words, lol.

Ok, if someone comes in with an alcohol or cocaine overdose and can't pay, treat them and let them do community service to make up the money.

[Does so]

“So I asked him, Just what is so wonderful about cocaine? And he said, It intensifies your personality. And I said, All right, but what if you’re an asshole?” —Bill Cosby

Good one. Never heard it before. :-)

[TxCopper]

Are you really prepared to ally yourself with the terrorists?

[SIDENET]

LOL!

[BipolarBob]

I don’t care what an adult chooses to put in their body.

If you loved your neighbor as yourself you would. I've seen a friend crash and burn on meth. Neither I nor anybody else could stop it, but we tried. And I would try again given the chance.

[Vision]

In case there is any gross understandings, I’m against illegal drugs.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I don’t care what an adult chooses to put in their body.

Within the bounds of reason (don't trouble others with the effects and consequences of your drug usage), neither do I.

[TxCopper]

Yes. But destroying NYC isn’t going to end the demand for illegal drugs.