Jeebus, Stuart Levine’s pharmaceutical experience is long…
To get the proper framework for Levine’s testimony, you’ve got to imagine it coming from the mouth of a 62-year-old businessman in a gray suit and wing tips who used to make the black-tie social whirl as a major charitable fund-raiser.
Levine said he first experimented with drugs in 1972, primarily using marijuana and cocaine during that decade. He said he also tried quaaludes a couple of times in the same period and did LSD once.
In the mid-1980s, Levine said there was a change in his drug use when he began partying with a group of five male friends — two or three at a time — once or twice a month as his business schedule allowed.
For a while Levine said he was doing mostly ecstasy and cocaine, but by the mid-90s he had switched to crystal meth amphetamines and ketamine, both of which he would snort in their white powder form.
“I preferred the combination of those two to other drugs,” he said, describing the effect as “euphoria” and lowering inhibitions.
Levine usually partied on weekdays “in order to deceive my family,” he said. That made it easier for him to feign business reasons for being absent.
“On the weekends, we were all home and together,” he said.,
For the in-town parties, Levine said he met his friends at the hotel in the morning and did drugs until early evening, but always went home afterward.
“I was expected home,” he explained.
When they left Chicago, usually for Springfield but also for another town he did not name, it was an overnight trip in which they used drugs nonstop and never slept.
Levine said he would take drugs five to 10 times a night during the parties.
How did this guy not OD in all that time? These aren’t your mild experimentation drugs, these are your drug connoisseur Hunter S. Thompson mixes.
Even weirder when you know what the guy looks like:
