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Features
Cocaine: Interview with a Dealer
conducive to drug use?
in dealing cocaine?
effect last?
Anonymous
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[dealing] if you are a cool person.
By Mary Synek
Staff Writer
You're wired so you don't eat, you real, no matter what,
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There are people like that who are to become Mr. Beaver Cleaver but level, gets to St. Mary's.
A. Oh, yeah. You have so much just drug friends, but that's part of it doesn't work. They're just trying
freedom. A lot of people freak out, having your s— together. By the to find another obsession. You can Q. How did you become involved
Q. What kind of person do you the person so they lie to keep him stuff easy.
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A. I smoked a couple of joints
A. Well, if they weren’t addicted " ...if you’re weak,
Q. Then why do coke in the first A. Insecurity- Some people do they can, but its hard. Getting and can’t StOD some-
place? Doesn't it make you drugs just to hang out in a certain busted will usually scare a guy Lin. iP rnkp
unhappy ultimately? crowd. That's where you are going pretty bad, though . A lot of times —0 Huim2, --m
to go downhill, trying to be part of people will get into a relationship W1** break yOU.____________
A. It's impressive at first but you the allure. Those people do the drug to substitute the coke. If that When you become a capitalist and
see automatically that your body just to talk, get rid of their person tells them not to do it, then people know you're out for one
doesn't like this drug, that it doesn't problems. I can't stand those the person usually lies. You can't thing only they don't really trust
work out. It takes the place of food, people. They should be able to be force someone to quit. They'll just you. Me, I'm just in it for the
that I wasn't going to stick
Q. How long does one line's to people, but I have five best can just get some more. I'll worry with the right people. They trusted
Q. Is it an escape? Or is it instant think should steer clear of coke? or her from being disappointed. If
gratification? ,,----------------------------7— you try to strut authority around a Q. How much do casual users buy
...yOU see auto- coke user, they'll never stop. You for a weekend?
A. No, it's not really an escape, maticany that Your have to be understanding, not
The only headline about coke I ever body doesn t like judgemental. You have to be sup- A. About two grams at $100 a
liked was "The Big Lie." It's like this drug, that it portive. It takes a strong person to gram. Sometimes more if they
having a relationship where you doesn’t work out. It help another quit. want to share. You can go through
Cocaine is intriguing mys- fall in love with someone just for takes the place of three grams a night easy depending
terious, a curious drug ’ which the sex. You direct all your food. You’re wired Q- How big is the coke business on how much of a head you are.
intices’the best of us. Over the energies toward it and they stab you so you don’t eat, at St. Mary's?
years I have observed friends live it in the back. Cocaine becomes your vou don’t want to.” __ , , Q- IS St Marys a cocaine base
up with this drug and have been friend. You want it. "It‘s on my ---------------------------------- A. Most people at St. Marys are for San Antonio?
provoked to probe to try to side. I want it and I have to go up minor dealers, not big time. There
understand its maddening allure and to it. It makes me feel good. It‘s A. A depressed person. Because if was one guy, but he's not here A. Oh no. There are alot of big
its sometimes devastating effects, my drug. I like this drug." That’s you’r weak, and cant stop some- anymore. There is so much coke time dealers who sell to lawyers,
the way you get into it, I guess, thing quick, coke will break you. coming in right now [into San doctors, businessmen in San
. Then it stabs you in the back Like if you're a liar, coke will Antonio] that more minor dealers Antonio.
The tolowmg interview was because you find out, ultimately, amplify your lying. It’s not going are needed. So,maybe there will be
conauctea witn a M. Mary s stuaent that it f__s to make you happy if you're already a greater demand for small-time Q. Are the Greeks using coke
whose experience ranges from depressed. It will make you feel dealers to sell. There's a kind of more than ever?
casual use to dealing with cocaine. Don’t drugs alter worse. You end up doing more and hierarchy after it's brought in across
My desire is to illuminate the fact friendships? Can you truly trust more to keep from cracking up. the border. It’s cut [mixed with
that cocaine use exists on our these people? People who run with the big boys methanol or baking soda] a couple
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A. No, not at all. I was drug free cocaine use and abuse are products interpersonal problems will under stress, the harder it is to
the fall semester of my freshman of the modemm era ineviably backfire. depend on ones own natural coping
year then I started getung back into "The coke high offers a short, in their book, Stone and ability and psychological strengths,
it (I did some stuff in high school), sweet taste of how we think it Frommc differentiate between the The less a person uses his
I go drug free for a long time, just must feel to succeed at the user, abuser, dependent, and addict strengths, the more he becomes
to get my body in shape. I feel American Dream. It lets us in on of cocaine. dependent on cocaine, an artificial
better about myself. Then I do the triumph, the ecstasy, the flush The recreational user is charac- confidence booster.
drugs again. Kind of up and down, of success. We tend to think in terized by cocaine use that is Cocaine addiction goes beyond
During the summer I work, get terms of the quick fix, the unpatterned and infrequent--about chemical dependency. The pro-
healthy, then go back to school and technoiogicai marvel that win six to ten times per year. The pensity for addiction lies in the
destroy my bank account and my suddenly make a bad situation recreational user has one aim: fun. person, not in the drug. Cocaine
body. It works for me. It's a good." In Short, the cocaine high He does not use it to make himself addiction is defined by the loss of
/vicious cycle. produces the illusion of instant feel better, but to improve an control, the inability to resist the
happiness. In reality, the drug can already good time. compulsion to use cocaine;
Q. Do most drug users bring lead users into theft, drug dealing, Cocaine use is abuse when it continued use in spite of
drugs to St. Marys or are they and excessive money borrowing causes any negative effects in a consequences such as damaged
influenced here? because of it's high price. person’s life. The emergence of relationships, threats of financial
a , i . Cocaine use damages the fre- any set pattern in cocaine use ruin, loss of one's job, sickness,
A., Half and half. That s a lot quent user’s ability to perform his shows that the drug is an threat of legal punishment, even
really. Half become druggies here, or her job. People who use cocaine established part of the person’s life, death. High involvement with the
the other half already were. often tend to feel depressed and it begins to compete with other cocaine becomes the central and
irritable in between coke highs, important things. An increase in most important focus of the addict's
Q. Do you think a campus is This can diminish productivity and the amount of cocaine taken is existence.
someone in the back. It takes time
A. You do three or four lines, Q. Well, I've seen people who do Q. If someone says they're going for a person to be trusted. It's
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