Kenny, first notice I wrote "fashionable", not fashionable. It´s very very sad but cocaine is the true epidemic in Europe now and since the early 90s, so it´s not getting better, it´s getting worse, because other types of drugs have been added to the "fashion". I´m not an expert but, as they say, "reality bites your a*s" sometimes.
In Spain, you just have to go out at night and find yourself in the middle of a dealing or seeing someone sniffing in the toilet. Just like that. It´s one of the reasons I do hate how the American shows have idealized the use and making and dealing with drugs. "Weeds", "Breaking Bad" and, without going any further, TNT´s "Dallas" shows things I don´t need to see because I do know are there and believe me, there are no "good and bad" drugs.
It´s a way of life: if one chooses it, then you are sentenced for life. Of course I´m sure there are people here who will be cynical and think: "How naïve, I do control it", but it´s all bullsh*t: using drugs alienates people from other people and helps make illegal, inhuman business to people who are just parasites. And seeing what politicians do about it (nothing), this will probably never change. Sorry if this is depressing to you (it actually is to me). So no, coke has not disappeared at all. And, in a sense, the Tommy storyline was meaningful at the time, up until he became a psycho and a Melrose Place-looking character, of course. That was as crap as it could be.
