Yes. Plus most of Jake’s paycheck was spread pretty thick between all the babysitters finding him drugs all over the world. He wasn’t living lavish because being a functioning fentanyl addict (dosing every 30 minutes compared to maybe a few hours when real heroin bc of the shitty half-life on modern dope) costs alot of money. He didn’t have to use to avoid getting sick, he had the bread to just keep going. The old man must have been slamming a few bags at a time by the time he took that last hellride.
Dude really sucked, but somehow overdosing made him even MORE untouchable and loved because everyone in the silly skate industry wanted to beleive “he just died with a guitar in one hand, a Harley in the other and a confederate flag in the other” or whatever bullshit these idiots that never had to deal with him write on their THE OLD MANS WATCHING bookbags they push around sf wearing.
Rest in peace Van Wastell.
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