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drugs.

posted 18 years ago by raoulduke1314
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I've always assumed that they were using heroin in the movie, but I've read some comments that people have posted in which they say that they are using cocaine.
Since watching it again, I noticed how vague they are with the drugs. For instance, they never say heroin, h, smack, or coke (if they indeed are using cocaine); but instead use ambiguous terms like dope and drugs.
Well, I thought it would be clear that they are using heroin since they are called junkies, and also because they need rehab (coke really isn't very hard to quit, at least physically). Plus, they don't seem at all coked out when they take their drugs, just a mellow opiate high.

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[–] Something2die4 18 years ago

Major flaw? No way.

[–] royallyrambunctious 18 years ago

To the author, cocaine is not easy to quit, it is an extremely addictive substance. There are in fact rehabilitation centers for users of cocaine.

[–] raoulduke1314 18 years ago

Not that it's easy to stop abusing cocaine, but it doesn't create a physical addiction like heroin; and the characters Stretch and Spoon don't seem to be mentally addicted as much as they are physically addicted to the drug that they use. Cocaine can be very mentally addicting, but that's a completely different type of affliction.

[–] redrum760 8 years ago

you're absolutely right but i still agree with your friends in that they're doing coke. from the conversation towards the beginning, one of the best in the movie, when cookie realizes 'stretch' ate her veggie burger. pac starts talking stuff to her about faking like you're healthy and smoke 3 packs a day, to which she replies, talk to me about smoking when you quit the blow...i win. i only know blow as coke....i guess cuz they slam it maybe you become more physically dependent.
i agree though, it seemed like they're trying to get into a methadone clinic...

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[–] ibahl 18 years ago

Stretch and Spoon were heroin addicts who occasionally used cocaine recreationally. The drug they were trying to quit was heroin. They didn't use cocaine regularly enough to really be addicted to it.

[–] suga_boo69 18 years ago

They used the term :Blow" countless times and blow stands for coke...so i think that they were useing coke...but that was my understanding

[–] TrivialMatters 18 years ago

I always thought they were crack heads. As for coke not being addictive and easy to quit.. lol.

'Me, I always tell the truth - even when I lie.'

[–] raoulduke1314 18 years ago

If they were using cocaine, they would be shooting up much more often than they are shown doing; intravenuous use of cocaine lasts around 10 minutes.

And really, cocaine doesn't cause dangerous physical addiction. When people become addicted to cocaine, it is much more of a mental addiction, not that I'm saying that that is easy to get over.

Heroin, on the other hand, creates a living hell of a physical addiction, with unbearable withdrawals that can last for what feels like a lifetime. And if you are "fortunate" enough to detox in a methadone clinic, you will likely be spoon-fed an all new addiction to methadone.

In the movie, Tupac says something along the lines of "We don't even get high anymore." They are just using to maintain; to delay the sickness. I'm pretty sure it's H.

[–] psychedelic_Work_of_Art 18 years ago

It's Heroin. On one scene you see the brown powder turn white...Definatly heroin. As for the term "Blow", that's a universal word for any drug you can smoke (i.e. Coke, Heroin, Weed, et cetera.). Also, they respond to getting high through relaxing, where as coke is an upper so you'd be more "hyper", per sé. However, I would say they were taking Coke with Lucy Liu's charecter.

[–] nikkosia 18 years ago

I think they use dope and drugs often, but they are pretty much users of cocaine and heroin, being heroin the one the use more regularly. However I think they try to quit everything.

[–] TrivialMatters 18 years ago

Aaaaah, they shoot up? Sorry, its been a long time since ive seen this film. I just had images of tupac smoking a crack pipe (blame TV and movies for this negative black stereotype). in that case, yes, its definatly heroin.

'Me, I always tell the truth - even when I lie.'

[–] nhomonko 9 years ago

They were using H.

Notice the needles are sort of a brown color.

Yes they referenced "blow", but all the evidence points to H.

Trust me, I am a recovering addict myself.

[–] shouryarob 10 years ago

coke isn't hard to quit? how many times have you quit coke bitch?

[–] CasseroleWorshipper 9 years ago

It was heroin.
They really didn't look like they could afford cocaine in the first place. It was Cee-Cee who did coke.

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[–] Bossdog677 (1454) 9 months ago

Calling cocaine "blow" is like saying you are going to score a lid of marijuana. You can tell y'all ain't know nothing about the streets

[–] Puvwall (1223) 9 months ago

"Streets" lol