Word, schmerd. The clips are here in this post:
The reason why this, unlike a lot of things Nick has said, is accepted as at least partial truth is because beginning in mid-late 2022 he started to act increasingly degenerate and weird. Right around Hedo II. Late 2022 is also when the thread was moved out of Multimedia. All of these things coincide.
My theory here is that he was open about trying cocaine, while claiming he didn't like it (lie), because he wanted to try and head off what he (correctly) assumed was gonna be speculation that he was on coke. Balldoguards could then try and go with "Nick doesn't like coke, retard" and hopefully shout down any such speculation.
Obviously this did not work because it became fucking obvious the more time went on that he was on hard drugs and that it was making him unstable. The grand culmination of all this was the Cokestream, where he had white powder on his nose and was barely coherent.
Even Andy "the retarded Phoenix" Warski correctly called his coke usage fairly early, before the arrest and search warrant.
Is it possible that Nick was doing coke before he was 40, and the Hedo II trip? I suppose it's possible, but if he did, he hid it fairly well. Before 2023, people just assumed Nick's only real vice was alcohol.