Comments: Cocaine is like a small forest fire in the brain. Meth is like a large forest fire. In either case, the results aren’t good. Ultimately, it’s a matter of genetics how the damage is ultimately expressed. With cocaine, a few people can go quite a long time before the damage is apparent, while others get Parkinson’s or dementia relatively early.
Cocaine was rampant in the entertainment industry in the ’70′s and ’80′s. Consider how MJFox was able to star in a major sitcom, while starring in a major motion picture at the same time. Normally, that’s impossible, unless cocaine is your copilot. I believe Fox got Parkinson’s so we might have “Back to the Future.”
For the same reason, I predict we’ll see more famous boomers dying a bit early, and unpleasantly, many with neurological issues, brain aneurysms, etc., in the near future. Linda Rondstadt and Joni Mitchell come to mind.
It’s still annoying to me when people tweet about Robin Williams, saying “it gets better. get help for depression,” when depression wasn’t his problem. His problem was regular cocaine use turned his brain into something reminiscent of a dried up cat turd. It’s like telling someone without arms if he just gets a good coach, and the right attitude, he could be a good baseball player.
To this day, drugs are still not a problem in the entertainment industry as long as it enhances your performance, and it enhances many of your favorite actor’s performances. Nobody like to bring it up, because it’s taking a shit on a party. Aaron Sorkin without cocaine means we don’t get West Wing! We can’t have that, so be quiet, you!
