My understanding of his life was that he smoked some pot once and a while, until he decided to spend a year “experimenting” with heroin. Needless to say it lasted longer than a year, and he eventually died.
I see the parallel between Nowell’s “experiment” with heroin and the OP’s friend’s “recreational pastime” with crack.
meek I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you can remember Jerry in some of the good times.
I want to print your OP out and mail it to an 18 year old girl I know who is now sitting in the county jail because she tested positive for cocaine while on probation! She’s sitting in county right now for 30 days because when she went before the judge she refused to say where she got the cocaine from. He gave her 30 days to think about it. I have a feeling she’s tried crack as well. Sigh She’s very bright, very pretty, has had all kinds of advantages but this is what she chose to do.
From what I understand, that story was more or less cooked up for an MTV documentary to make it more interesting. The closest thing to a real Sublime story is that everyone was on heavy drugs and alcohol and no one that was there really clearly remembers what went on during the 6 or 7 years they were together. I’m not saying “dude, it was like, totally a blur” but there is so much argument between everybody about what went on and when things actually happened (was that '93 or '94?) that anyone reporting on them basically has to make things up in order to turn out anything resembling a coherant story. I’ve met those guys; they’re pretty damn burned out.