Ross Mtangi, a trading executive at Credit Suisse Group AG , left his Manhattan penthouse in March 2021 with his laptop and told his pregnant partner he was going to work. Mr. Mtangi, 40 years old, missed a follow up meeting. His sister and her partner found him dead at the hotel the next day. Police found on a table translucent black baggies that contained lethal fentanyl mixed in with the cocaine.
In the East Village, first-year lawyer Julia Ghahramani, 26, texted the same delivery service the same day. She also died. She had just started her career remotely at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
Social worker Amanda Scher, 38, did the same. She died in the Greenwich Village apartment she shared with her Chihuahua-Corgi rescue dog. It was a stone’s throw from where she had received her master’s degree at New York University.
The average coke user is apparently very diverse now
“Julia was a driven professional with everything to live for. Never in a billion years would she have touched anything with fentanyl,” he said. “This is like putting bullets in people’s brains.”
You may not like it, but there is a sliding scale of degeneracy
Alcohol, weed, prescription painkillers and valium, prescription 'study aids', party drugs, the kinda shit that fucks you right up like meth. There's a pecking order, and people with an issue with one will look down on people below them on 'harder' or 'nastier' drugs. Not entirely without reason either, the heirarchy makes sense.
Lol, coke is the line for “hard drugs” it would be easier to say weed is less degenerate than coke than your statement as weed doesn’t have the same transitory drug percentages. When someone is willing to do coke they are far more likely to abuse other drugs as well.
I'm not sure. Most coke users I know would draw the line at coke, largely due to image. Coke is a sophisticated drug in the eyes of many users, who wouldn't dare lower themselves to heroin or anything harder. Saying that, it was once a middle class drug in my country, yet now it's mainstream; there's as many coke users as weed smokers these days.
Yup. Heroin junkies, crackheads, and meth heads. All of them will lie to and steal from their own friends and family. In some cases even commit murder for more drugs.
Older generations used to just sit on the front porch and just enjoy "being". Whatever that was, I think we've lost it. Now we need to escape by removing us from reality, dumbing down our senses or getting lost in fictional worlds. We are no longer capable of just being at peace with ourselves.
Yeah, but when you've been getting your speed from a pharmacy it's a big step down to have to get it from some guy with an animal nickname in a back alley somewhere. Especially if you're some white-collar college student who has no idea how to do so without getting robbed.
Probably either a tiny room in a flat shared with 3 others, or more likely given the NYU masters she was living in grandma's flat and the coke was bought with daddy's money.
The average coke user is apparently very diverse now
The copium is strong
Yay, snorting coke is totally normal, guys. It's the fentanyl that's the problem here, not "normal" people habitually ordering and consuming cocaine.
You may not like it, but there is a sliding scale of degeneracy
Alcohol, weed, prescription painkillers and valium, prescription 'study aids', party drugs, the kinda shit that fucks you right up like meth. There's a pecking order, and people with an issue with one will look down on people below them on 'harder' or 'nastier' drugs. Not entirely without reason either, the heirarchy makes sense.
Coke is less degenerate than fentanyl.
Lol, coke is the line for “hard drugs” it would be easier to say weed is less degenerate than coke than your statement as weed doesn’t have the same transitory drug percentages. When someone is willing to do coke they are far more likely to abuse other drugs as well.
I'm not sure. Most coke users I know would draw the line at coke, largely due to image. Coke is a sophisticated drug in the eyes of many users, who wouldn't dare lower themselves to heroin or anything harder. Saying that, it was once a middle class drug in my country, yet now it's mainstream; there's as many coke users as weed smokers these days.
Needle junkies are the lowest on the totem pole. No one in their right mind trusts them.
Methheads.
Yup. Heroin junkies, crackheads, and meth heads. All of them will lie to and steal from their own friends and family. In some cases even commit murder for more drugs.
I'd argue that jenkem and krokodil manage to be even lower.
The root of the problem is the need for escapism.
Older generations used to just sit on the front porch and just enjoy "being". Whatever that was, I think we've lost it. Now we need to escape by removing us from reality, dumbing down our senses or getting lost in fictional worlds. We are no longer capable of just being at peace with ourselves.
I hear that Americans have been freaking out over an Adderall shortage. That stuff is just glorified speed.
“Americans” in that vernacular are just shitty parents and drug addicts
Yeah, but when you've been getting your speed from a pharmacy it's a big step down to have to get it from some guy with an animal nickname in a back alley somewhere. Especially if you're some white-collar college student who has no idea how to do so without getting robbed.
Using the term "delivery service" instead of dealer, normalizes it too. It makes it sound like they got their cocaine through DoorDash.
Probably either a tiny room in a flat shared with 3 others, or more likely given the NYU masters she was living in grandma's flat and the coke was bought with daddy's money.
Right? And I guarantee she works 30 hours per week at most. Probably more like 20 or less once you subtract the hours spent browsing Twitter.
Cocaine was always kinda popular amongst lawyers.
Doctors sometimes get into the medical cocaine, too.
Yep. Also, the guy who worked for credit suisse. Cocaine is like coffee for bankers, especially in NYC.
Only 100% pure cut medical cocaine for me.
Not gonna lie medical cocaine sounds pretty great
Never can really trust what youre getting on the street
Whatever doctors get, is quality pure hospital-grade shit, though aren't they usually on more grunt-candy type things, stereotypically speaking?
It can’t be any worse off than being the emotional coping tool of a morbidly obese coke user…