“Cocaine is about as heavy a drug as alcohol, and no more.”
Not very accurate ... Cocaine leads to more alcohol use; in fact many people like cocaine because it allows you to drink more alcohol than you normally would be able to. I’ve seen this first hand a hundred times. It is a fast track to alcoholism.
You also didn’t mention the next step...smoking crack cocaine.
The slippery slope fallacy is drug war propaganda that never had any basis in fact.
Cruz and his old man are drunks. The big red bulbous nose is a dead giveaway. Lying, cheating, lashing out at others also indicative of most life-long boozers, not all but most. Cruz also looks 10 years older than his 45 years. Booze and cocaine can do that.