Don't underestimate those 3 Caduceus when it comes to creativity. Because despite the minor altering consciousness effects of coke (only extreme wakefulness with a general sense of coolness, some euphoria), it does stimulate abstract thinking and hell yeah it does increase the ability to perform tasks clearly and fast while being full in control. Thinking, speaking, writing, performing all goes way more smooth.
I also noticed that when I made a plea about politics, my text or speech became a more critical and structured aim directed at the opposite party/person. Instead of represented text in where my thoughts on the story are displayed. Many heated columns in today's media are founded during a coke high. Publicist, journalists, reporters etc. It is no wonder either that lawyers are often snorting too. It makes one a formidable debatter, finding the right phrases with less effort and being in able to construct sentences quicker. But less aware of what others their input is.
I also have suspicions about politicans who're occasionally using it as an additional tool for their heavy job. It keeps them fit, and there are no specific ways to detect or someone is on C. But it is their verbal behaviour which got a shift up, and occasionally an uninterrupted will to speak which may conceal them.
I think most of the artists are faling into a coke/alcohol addiction because when they have their time off, they're looking for moments of joy to escape from their hard-working lifes. At first, it seems manageable. But later on, spare time without coke and alcohol is considered as total dullness. And it'd make them too ordinary. Alcohol/coke typically produces that invincible + top of the world feeling. Only experienced as superficial by those who did psychedelics, but not by those who're coming from merely the sober life.
But I do believe that moderated coke use can bring mainly benefits for some, as I noticed with myself. Although I quitted it 'cause of my conscience, it suppresses my inner life. But it'd work out in some way to get through life with more energetic pleasure, only if I had not taken any knowledge of mind expanders. On where I choosed to construct my life on.
From the outside, one may come across as 'a living guy'. That is what makes coke tricky. Because one chooses his projection to others and the judgement of his environment as his new life. But inside, one gets emptier and emptier. Often one doesn't realise that or is willing to even sacrifice that. And in a further phase, one is totally depending on acknowledgement for his outer appearance. Forgetting his own inner welness. In the end, the environment may notice the plastic shell around such a coke user, and then both his innerlife and honour has collapsed. And then the end stories which we all know, appear.
As for H/Opiates. Work with reference to tragedies which are well known by people and which many of us may experience up to a certain point in our lifes, is often a very real enclosure with no covers about the smallest details. On H there is no shame, one tells the truth and pours it all out without having to think about honour. This makes some work from H users typically unique. They are truly honest in a straight way.