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Cokehead should be ashamed
Article from: The Daily Telegraph
By Fiona Connolly
December 11, 2008 12:00am
HER heart is thumping. She can feel it pulsing in her throat, a loud wooshing sound ringing in her ears.
It's loud enough it drowns out the noise of the pokies and the dull beats spilling out of The Bourbon. Her toes are sticky. Damn it, there's blood on her foot. She hitches her micro mini and bends over to take a look. But it's no good, she can't see.
She blinks, or are her eyes actually flitting now? She can't tell. The bright lights of the Cross are as blurry as hell.
OK, try to focus on that Macca's sign then, she thinks. But she can't. The wobbling yellow sign makes her laugh out loud, even though she's alone. Even though blood is dripping from her nose.
She's been drinking for 24 hours and is still not drunk. A couple of grams will do that to you, she laughs to herself.
All right, so her nose is stuffed but if she could just scab one more line from someone, just a bit to rub on her gums even, then she'd call it a night.
This could well be the sad story of a low-life Sydney prostitute, an ice addict or speed freak. But it's not.
It is an all too typical picture of Sydney's well-heeled 20, 30 and 40-something professionals, where a weekend cocaine binge is somehow not only acceptable but something of a status symbol in this city today.
Bankers, lawyers, engineers, IT professionals, doctors ("they're the worst" apparently) all "racking up" until their nostils can take no more or until the "gear" eventually runs out.
You see, it's perfectly OK because it's cocaine. Real druggos don't use cocaine, they can't afford it. Real druggos are skanky speed and ice users. Coke is glam. It's part of the scene. Rich people, celebrities use it.
The other common attitude is that they're all proud of it.
To offer someone a line of coke is to say they've got a spare $300 to throw away on a gram for the weekend. It's a badge of honour. And you're particularly popular if you're sharing your stash.
It goes some way to explaining why Young Australian of the Year contender Iktimal Hage-Ali made no attempt to apologise for her cocaine use as she testified in the District Court this week where she is suing the NSW Government for unlawful arrest and wrongful imprisonment.
Instead, she was filled with pride over her former coke habit, telling the court she had lied to her dealer and childhood friend Bruce Fahdi so she could get drugs on credit.
"I'm not ashamed of the fact that I have used cocaine. I know I took drugs but I still did a good job." she puffed.
What? Not even a hint of a "naughty me, drugs are bad" when you are talking to a judge - and an entire courtroom full of reporters?
If we didn't already know, I'd be asking what this supposedly intelligent girl was on, that she's so keen to tell the world she was an out-and-proud cokehead. I didn't hear Hage-Ali crow about the coke addicts who lick toilet seats for leftover grains of powder, or the users who suffer brain bleeds or those who have heart attacks and die after one too many lines.
I note too that in her self-assured, independent woman spiel to the court she didn't brag about the men and women rocking back and forth with severe psychosis in the corner of the state's mental institutions.
Nor did she mention the good folk who undertake the drive-by shootings and murder innocent people which allow her - and Sydney's bulging white collar cocaine crew - their illicit supply. Given she would "happily admit" to the District Court to snorting 3g of cocaine a week, I take it Hage-Ali hasn't pondered these things. After all, it's not like its grubby heroin or ice - otherwise known as "poor man's coke". She was speaking of cocaine. The expensive stuff.
This is also presumably the attitude of Assistant Director-General Michael Talbot, Hage-Ali's former boss, who yesterday gave evidence that the Attorney-General's Department wanted her back despite the criminal charges she faced.
"There was no impediment of her returning to work," he told the court.
"I would have had her back in the role that she was partaking in at the time."
In recent weeks I've heard more than a few people talk of having a "white Christmas" this year. They will do so courtesy some of Sydney's high-end clubs which perpetuate this city's rampant cocaine use with custom-made mirrored shelves in their toilet cubicles.
They will "smash" a bag or two a night, while the likes of supermax prisoner Bassam Hamzy and his crew map out a crime spree to satisfy Sydney's never-ending demand for this evil drug.
May I ask Ms Hage-Ali, what's not to be ashamed about that?
Daily Telegraph
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