What did Charlie Sheen mean when he used the phrase "banging 7 gram rocks"?

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Today’s Quote of Time.com (TIME@time.chtah.com) carries the following line of Charlie Sheen’s remark. Being totally ignorant of the background of CBS and Warner Brothers’ cancellation of the production of the program, I have no idea about the phrase, ‘bang 7 gram rock.’

I understand the line after ‘Because that’s how I roll ...’ means he is single-mindedly do what he decided to do – to sue CBC and Warner Broth. Can somebody translate the above line into English easier for a foreign learner like me to understand?

"I probably took more than anybody
  could survive. I was banging 7 gram
  rocks. Because that's how I roll. I
  have one speed. I have one gear: Go." 
  CHARLIE SHEEN, who on Monday night, in
  addition to giving incoherent
  interviews, announced that he plans to
  sue CBS and Warner Brothers for
  canceling the production of Two and a
  Half Men.”

Robusto · Answer

Banging 7-gram rocks.

He's talking about taking ("banging") crystals of crack cocaine. Seven grams is a LOT. According to the Wikipedia article, "Large amounts (several hundred milligrams or more) intensify the user's high, but may also lead to bizarre, erratic, and violent behavior." If a large dose is less than a gram, one wonders how Mr. Sheen survived at all.

That's how I roll.

Slang for "this is my normal, customary behavior."

I have one speed and one gear: go.

If he is moving at all, he is moving at his maximum speed.

Hellion · Answer

taking it a sentence at a time:

I probably took more than anybody could survive.
-> I did so many drugs I should have died [from an overdose].
I was banging 7 gram rocks
-> I was taking 7 grams of hard drugs [crack cocaine, probably] at a time.
That's how I roll.
-> That's the way I am.
I have one speed.  I have one gear: Go.
-> I take chances, I take risks, I don't care about the negatives.

user5623 · Answer

"Banging" means injecting, snorting or smoking cocaine. He probably sniffed a ton of coke, I can't see Charlie being a crackhead. Cocaine, as we all know, is very common in Hollywood.
He's been on the stuff for years.
Over time, he probably needed to do more to get high (obviously). I'd say doing seven grams at a time is insane, but I think he meant he did seven grams in a sitting, or a night, and it was nothing to him.
How's that for translation?

What did Charlie Sheen mean when he used the phrase "banging 7 gram rocks"?

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