How wrong that belief turned out to be. Cocaine lures users toward a titillating but short-lived high, followed by a gripping physical and psychological dependency. Coke users quickly reach a point where they don't know how to exist without it.
Toxic levels can cause psychotic reactions that can last from two to four days.
Added to that are the real and present dangers of seizures or a fatal stroke or heart attack, even among first-time coke users. Preoccupation with thoughts of doing cocaine. Feeling the need to use cocaine before any social or business event. Setting limits to cocaine use, then breaking them again and again. Using the drug nonstop for periods of an entire day or longer.