ITT drug addicts are drug addicts -
I think Richard Pryor was freebasing coke and drinking overproof rum when he caught fire, I've got his autobiography somewhere but can't find it right now.
I heard it was ether as well, but hey you hear a lot of things. Unless you knew Richard Pryor yourself and he told you, you'd still only have been told a story not necessarily the truth.
Either way it's pretty fucking funny!
Was he? I thought he was just that cracked out that he torched his hair lol.
Surely the stereotypical inner-city US crackhead would still be absolutely fucked up (albeit without offering to suck your dick for a hit) even if crack was readily available in the newsagents for 10p a go?
Lol @ being so tweaked you "just torch your own hair".
Regarding the crack legalization hypothesis - I'm sure you would still have "a bunch of crackheads" in some areas, but there would probably be a lot fewer of them in time, after you would initially get the "rebels"/misfits of society getting into crack more I'm sure - kids trying it out as part of "that phase", but I don't think all in all it would make much difference because of the well deserved stigma.
Such a historical social stigma being attached to crack use would mean it was only popular in certain parts of society - I'm sure next to nothing would actually change, exact we would have fractionally less addicts than we have now.
People tend to get help when what's happening to them comes out more into the open, and becomes an "accepted" (albeit negative and shameful) aspect of society - look what's happening with rape and paedophile cases to name an example - as people's views change as to the thing that actually occur, and people become more enlightened, more people are willing to actually own up that they have a problem, and seek help.
I think it would be the same, not saying that getting raped or touched as a child has anything to do with smoking crack. haha.
Also crack will
never be legal...