The spirit of Cocaine Bear is epitomized in a scene in which the titular bear snorts the titular cocaine off of the leg of a wildlife activist. It is gruesome. It is absurd. It is hilarious.
It’s based—extremely loosely—on the real life story of a black bear that came across and subsequently ate millions of dollars of cocaine dropped in the Georgia wilderness by drug smugglers whose plane was crashing in 1985.
Alec Dent is a former culture editor and staff writer for The Dispatch.
