Cocaine

Cocaine also known as coke, blow, and snow, is a stimulant powder that is inhaled through the nose formally called insufflation or commonly referred to as “snorting.” Cocaine has 2 common forms: cocaine powder which is snorted, and the crystal rock version called crack which is smoked. Both cocaine and crack contain the same psychoactive chemical. Snorted cocaine increases heart rate, blood pressure, and boosts general energy. Within a couple minutes of ingestion, the user feels a rush of euphoria and energy kick that feels very sharp and pleasurable. Many users often feel like they are stronger than they are, more confident, and more energetic. Users often speak quicker and move their body more via fidgeting or dancing if in a party or bar setting. Cocaine has a similar feeling to Adderall but much less duration and cocaine’s effects are felt much quicker than an Adderall pill.

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Cocaine is extracted from these leaves called

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Cocaine is viewed in America as a “high class” drug because of its high cost and history related to celebrities and wealthy people who use it. Many people believe that cocaine is a rich people’s party drug but crack is a drug that brings images of homelessness, addiction, hopelessness. This societal view is very dangerous as it downplays the dangers of cocaine use. It must be understood that powder cocaine and crack provide the exact same high and carry the same general dangers. The only difference between the two is that crack is smoked therefore the high feels more like a “rush” and effects are felt very quickly within 20 seconds. Cocaine Is snorted so the effects take a couple minutes to be felt which decreases the sense of quick euphoria. It is true that the rushing euphoria of crack is more psychologically addictive but both cocaine and crack have the exact same overall high. After all, crack is just powdered cocaine cooked together with baking soda to turn it into a crystal. American society has an inaccurate perception that cocaine is more socially acceptable than crack.

Cocaine is an illegal Schedule 2 drug in the United States. Schedule 2 drugs are considered to have high potential for abuse with use potentially leading to severe psychological or physical dependence. The scheduling of a drug is determined by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in America.

Other Schedule 2 drugs include Adderall, methamphetamine, and oxycodone, and fentanyl. The scheduling of drugs in America is very controversial and the ranking does not always align with the current scientific research regarding the danger and abuse potential of the substances.

A dose of cocaine is often described one of two ways: bumps and lines. A “bump” is a smaller dose than a line where someone uses a tool like a key to pick up a little pile of powder and snorts it. The other way is a line where a larger dose of cocaine is placed on a surface like a table and snorted along the length of the line. The weight of a bump or line cannot be recommended because the purity of different people’s cocaine will be different. A 10 milligram bump of 100% pure cocaine is 4 times as strong as 25% pure coke so there really is no average size dose of cocaine. As a rough guide, always assume your cocaine is really strong so you do not underestimate it and take too much

Both powder cocaine and crack cocaine are very hard to dose correctly. Many factors such as purity, possibility of other adulterants (laced) or inaccuracies in weighing dose all make a recommendation for dosing extremely difficult. Since Cocaine is just a generic looking white powder it is nearly impossible to understand what the powder is made of by taste or smell alone. While it is always urgently recommended to reagent drug test your substances before use cocaine is a bit more complicated. In America, Cocaine is heavily adulterated and cut with either things to thin it out or it may be cut with other drugs to enhance the effects. Inactive ingredients like baking soda, baby powder, creatine, or lidocaine/ procaine, or a number of others are almost always added before a customer receives it. While active ingredients are less frequent it is adds risk and harm potential, cocaine is sometimes cut with caffeine, meth, and even opioids like heroin or fentanyl. Since all the inactive and active ingredients listed above could be generic white powders you can never be sure what is in your cocaine. Extremely pure cocaine and lethal dose fentanyl laced powder look the exact same. Furthermore, when adulterants are mixed with cocaine, most cutting agents are odorless so both look and smell are not able to be noticed. Fentanyl, caffeine, meth, are odorless when mixed with cocaine so a white powder called cocaine can really be made of anything.

Cocaine is produced majorly in south America then trafficked to everywhere else in the world. Countries like Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru all have a monopoly on the cocaine production market. Cartels within those countries account for nearly 100% of the cocaine produced and distributed around the world. Although, cocaine in those countries is produced pure without adulterants, once that pure powder gets trafficked to another country the drug is cut and altered each time it changes hands. While America and Europe are both different distances from South America, the cutting agents used are largely the same.

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