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6th July 2022

Post reblogged from argumate with 38 notes

argumate:

actually one of the funny things about drug use in old stories is they haven’t figured out the Advanced Legal Classification Of Which Drugs Are Bad like we have, so a character who can smoke tobacco and weed and opium and maybe snort a little coke on the side and it’s kind of all treated as being much the same thing, or perhaps the coke is treated as a harmless vice like adderall while the tobacco is a little disreputable, even.

Powder cocaine was very much considered a “soft drug” like weed and unlike say heroin (with pharmaceuticals their own thing) in the late ‘70s/early '80s (but then there was freebasing)

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    I've seen collages of period (1975-1981) advertisements from mainstream sources, for cocaine accessories.
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    Powder cocaine was very much considered a "soft drug" like weed and unlike say heroin (with pharmaceuticals their own...
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    actually one of the funny things about drug use in old stories is they haven't figured out the Advanced Legal...