OND43X
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Wasnt there like heaps of coke around in Aus in the 70's, 80's and 90's etc? Probably wouldnt have been cut down as much back then?
I'm inclined to agree and state that: yes there was! Fancy that. I wonder what INXS etc were snorting in the 80's? Cheers poledriver! Had a good laugh which is always a positive thing. I think OND43X may have been talking about personal experience with the Peruvian marching powder.
Taking a leaf out of your book these days poledriver and staying sober... getting a bit to grey and don't want to look like Charlie Sheen. I will say that "coke" has been a "mainstream" drug since at least the 60's in wealthier circles. In the late 1800's you could buy all kinds of cocaine containing goodies OTC at your local chemist. Banned in UK, Oz after WW1 along with H and morphine, see underbellies take on the razor gangs whatever that particular series was called. Also troops in WW1 were given cocaine before going over the top to increase their fighting zeal, hence a ready made market of strung out diggers the razor gangs catered to post WW1. 1961 international convention on narcotics= world wide condemnation.
my comment was purely from what I experienced with cocaine which is why i wrote...
Although I first tried cocaine in the late 90's, i didnt really use cocaine on a semi or regular basis until early 2002, so i can only really give a proper personal experience from then till current.(please remember this is how it was for me)
But from a general perspective, cocaine has been in australia for as long as it has been in any other western country, but unlike the USA, australia never seen a massive cocaine surge in the late 70s and the early 80s, as i believe heroin was more popular here. Australia had its surge in the mid to late 90s.
Of course celebrities and the very rich may have been snorting cocaine in australia regularly in the 60s, 70s and 80s but it was never a mainstream drug, and it didnt really start becomeing more mainstreem until the 90s and it was the late 90s when cocaine truely became a mainstream drug, evidence to this was the availability and sale of crack cocaine on the streets of kings cross. The last few years cocaine usage and availability has been at its highest levels ever seen in australia.
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