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Where tf they getting coke at like 15?
It depends on where you live. I grew up in a poor part of Alabama. At 15 I could get you almost anything you wanted. Hell, the parents of some of the kids I grew up with were crack heads.
I remember I was hanging with a kid named Ronnie. Ronnie’s mom was named Connie, and a crack head. We were chillin with his bedroom window open when we heard “psssst hey. Psssssst hey Connie.” We looked out the window and saw one of our other friends moms fiendin. When she saw us she went “Hey Ronnie come here and give me a hug!” It was uncomfortable to say the least.
Ronnie is now serving life in Georgia. He tortured a man to death for the combination to his safe. Being a crackhead and a parent fucks your kids up. There were 3 kids in that house and all of them are varying degrees of fucked.
I hope Donnie, Bonnie and Lonnie are okay
The oldest hung out with Bill Riccio’s gang. Last I heard she married a cult leader that lives on the river and they had a bunch of kids. She used some group called something like sail away to escape.
Here is an appeal Ronnie filed. I hope this doesn’t break any rules. I figured that since it’s public record it would be ok. But if it’s not please delete.
https://law.justia.com/cases/georgia/supreme-court/2016/s16a0389.html
The youngest got pregnant by one of my other friends when they were like 14. Now no one knows where she is. He is in and out of jail/prison and his mom has the baby. Although she’d be grown as fuck now. Man, time flies.
fun fact about prohibition: it's harder for kids to get booze than it is other drugs because the booze guy has motivation to weed out underage customers whereas the coke guy goes to the same prison for selling to adults as he does for selling to 8 year olds. I was able to get weed, coke and dope in high school pretty easily.
That has been true for decades.
I remember reading an interview with one of the members of the Grateful Dead saying that they never really drank before they did a tour in Canada. Because they were under 21, booze was harder to get than drugs in the US, but the drinking age in Canada at the time was 18, so they were able to easily get booze while there.
Coke is getting more popular in the UK by quite a bit.
Its one of the few products beating inflation and the quality is much higher than it used to be.
Gangs, oldder siblings, older siblings in gangs.