Drugs on the Road

You’re unlikely to come across much cocaine on the road unless you’re headed for Latin America. There travelers often go wild like schoolboys in a sweet shop.

The thing is that just because something is expensive doesn’t make it good. The high prices have more to with its illegal status than the thrill of taking coke.

It can be fun to add a little excitement to your nights out on the town but as an everyday thing it can make you a really obnoxious bastard.

Coke users tend to feel themselves as superior to everyone else around them and so it’s not really a drug with great personality.

When scoring cocaine be very careful. The person selling it to you may well set you up with the cops so as to gain a little shake down cash himself. Don’t go to the favelas or slums to buy as you may either get taken for all you’re worth or else busted the moment you leave.

Many travelers think about financing future trips by smuggling cocaine in their stomachs or in a false-bottomed suitcase. Such adventurers have no idea what your average South American jail looks like. If they did the majority would have nightmares even at the idea. Don’t do it.

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