I don't know why I was thinking about cocaine the other day, but I was.
Now, I'm not the type to do drugs. I've been paying so little attention to the props that were just voted on in my state, but I think pot is legal here now. I still don't plan on using it. Ever. However, if I were to try it, fuck smoking it. I'd rather try an edible.
That said, with cocaine, fuck snorting it. I'd rather smoke it. I guess a lot today's drug addicts feel the same way. Though please understand there is no way I'm ever trying cocaine.
Before there was crack, everyone and their mother in certain industries was snorting cocaine like 24/7. I don't understand how anyone could snort anything up their nose, regardless of what it is. I've had really bad allergies all my life, and I could just imagine snorting powder would only exacerbate that. If crack didn't exist, I'd rather try literally any other drug under the sun before cocaine. Or, you know, no drugs at all. That would be fine too.
And in old TV shows and movies (or current shows/movies set in the 70s/80s) characters often put a little cocaine on their teeth. Does that get one high too? Why wouldn't everyone do that instead of snorting it? Snorting it up your nose just seems like the absolute dumbest way to possibly get any substance of any kind into your body. Could you not eat the powder? Mix it into a drink?
I think the inventor of crack thought along similar lines. Like "There's got to be some way I can take cocaine without flaring up my damn allergies." Voila, crack was invented.