Chances are if you're reading this, you were probably born sometime between 85' and 90'. And if you've ever watched Scarface, Blow, or any other movie about cocaine, you'd know that the 80's was a HUGE time for cocaine. Billions were made, hundreds of thousands (probably millions now) died from crack overdoses and the ever so hilarious "Richard Pryor incident" (i know HE didn't die, but others did. You CANNOT light yourself on fire people!). But make no mistake, there was nothing funny about it, the only people using this as a "party drug" were those who could afford it at the time. Eventually even those people had to make a decision whether to stop or become junkies. Now, my entire life (88 till ----) the only drugs i was introduced to via pop culture was weed, and maybe a pill or two here and there. But it seems that cocaine is making a comeback in pop-culture (though I don't think it ever left, i.e. the mid 90's). Everywhere I turn its a song referencing in some very obvious way use of or distribution of cocaine. Needless to say they make it look VERY cool (that is their jobs, right?). And even on television, the LAST place i thought I would see coke peddled (not sure why), it is obviously being pushed as an accepted deviance. Now, weed is one thing, sure it's illegal and makes you act a little funny, but it never broke up a home or made a woman (or man) sell themselves. So I pose this question to the artists, their managers, and whatever PR firms is helping this degeneration: Why would you make it acceptable en mass via pop culture to sell and/or use cocaine? Who is paying you for this? I mean, if I were any worse of a conspiracy theorist, I'd say the U.S. Government was tied to this correctly (example: gun store, liquor store, fast food place, and church, the formula of every hood in america. Funny eh?) But I digress, people, if you weren't down with it before, don't flip the script because pop-culture says its "acceptable" now. Be you. Be yourself.
Peace.
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