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As far as I know the main problems with long term cocaine use is the strain on the organs, same as speed, you run them too fast, especially with crack where the up is so fast and quick.
Plus it thickens the blood and tightens the viens which means your much more likely to have a heart attack or stroke.
Even more dangerous with alcoholm cocaine combines with alcohol to form cocaethylene which puts enormous strain on the liver and kidneys.
I attended a training course from COCA (Conference on Crack and Cocaine) recently. Crack and cocaine and not that much different. Believe.
But what i do claim to know is that the effects on a persons personality, mind and behaviour are much more shocking (and i think, more dangerous) when it comes to crack than cocaine. And its those effects that make me so against it. I dont think that any class A drugs to be honest are any more dangerous than another i think you take a big risk when you take any. But i will never touch crack or be a part of a persons life again if they do it, because i have seen how it changes people. Thats what im concerned about Its not the health aspects that make me so anti-crack.
And thanks for the info on long term effects Bongbudda and Blagsta.
I used to be a once in a while crack user. I've done it several times though not recently and I know plenty of people like me. Infact I know plenty of people with a coke problem who have only wash up every now and again.
TBH both coke and crack are crap - they can be nice but there's far better things out there to be using!!!
Heroin and cocaine do not compare in any shape or form to LSD for example. LSD is pretty much, physically, the safest drug you can do.
Plus there is 2CB, 2C-i and all the 'research chemicals' that were banned recently. None of those compare with cocaine or heroin. Although some of those are quite dangerous in terms of mental health and some you can OD on relatively easily.
Oh and of course the whole MDXX family of drugs.
Skive im not saying everyone who does crack is addicted from the start because youre right its not true, but it takes a strong personality.
And bongbudda i appreciate that, and youre right in terms of physical health some are much much less dangerous than others, but the ones such as acid which may be safer in terms of physical health than another drug make up for it with the mental issues that can arise from it.
This has to be wrong. I'm not saying that herion doesnt have medical uses, it does, or really that mushies do. But to put them in the same bracket is crazy.
I can see your point about the possible mental side effects from using any trip, be it mushies, LSD, MDMA etc. But I think there is also a lot to be gained from using these drugs too. Its only really a very small minority of people who experience long-term fall out from using drugs such as these.
I think the governemtn play a big part in making drugs such a grey area they focus so much on warning you off certain drugs that they forget about others and its easy to fall into problems with drugs you thought would be safe, if that makes sense?
I cant claim to know everything about drugs because every source tires to tell me something different, so everything i say i know is from experience ~ because i trust experience more than anything a website, person or book can tell me.
A lot of people go to the dam, pick up a box of mushies, think, oh these are natural, everyone does them, chew down a box and then freak out because they've never done a proper trip before and they dont feel that safe because they are not comfortable in a new town.
Heroin is actually not very physically harmful at all.