General Cocaine info

Cocaine also known as coke, blow, and snow, is a stimulant powder that is inhaled through the nose (aka snorting). Cocaine has 2 common forms: powder that is snorted, and the crystal rock version called crack that 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.

Cocaine Q&A

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Cocaine is extracted from these leaves called

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Americans often view cocaine 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, other adulterants (laced) or inaccuracies in weighing 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. It is always urgently recommended to reagent drug test your substances before use. In America, Cocaine is heavily adulterated and cut with chemicals to thin it out or laced 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 cocaine. 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.

These substances include acetaminophen, phenacetine, caffeine, lidocaine and in almost 70% of the samples levamisole (363 out of 524 samples)

dangers of Mixing cocaine and alcohol

Cocaine is often a party drug used at clubs, festivals, and parties. Partiers that drink alcohol often use cocaine at the same time to diminish the sedative effects of alcohol and make them more alert. Mixing cocaine with alcohol is dangerous for many reasons. Firstly, alcohol is a depressant and cocaine is a stimulant so mixing them can make the user feel more sober than they actually are. Cocaine use while drinking can make someone feel as if they can drink more without getting sick or “blacking out.” This makes alcohol poisoning and injury from falling much more likely. Secondly, mixing cocaine and alcohol creates a very unique chemical reaction in the body. Mixing these drugs creates the psychoactive chemical cocaethylene in the body. Cocaethylene causes the euphoric effects of cocaine to increase and create severe toxicity in the cardiovascular system.

Since alcohol is a depressant it causes the cardiovascular system to relax and dilates blood vessels including the vessels in the nose. Dilated nose blood vessels means that more of the cocaine snorted will reach the blood stream and heighten the drug effects even more. Cocaethylene is extremely toxic and more damaging than either cocaine or alcohol by themselves. The damage caused by alcohol plus cocaine plus cocaethylene makes this drug combination one of the most dangerous and toxic there is.

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toxicity and overdose potential of cocaine

Cocaine overdose is quite common for a multitude of reasons. Coke is a strong nervous system stimulant which ramps up heart rate, metabolism, temperature, and blood pressure. If too much cocaine is consumed the spike in bodily functions may cause overexertion of organs causing heart attack, overheating (heat stroke), lung problems like pneumonia, and sleep deprivation in chronic users. Seizures are also possible due to cocaines stimulating effects in the brain.

Cocaine outside of production countries such as Bolivia and Colombia is often cut with various things to mimic the effects of cocaine or thin the drug out. Everything from baby powder to lidocaine to fentanyl can be mixed into cocaine powder because all those substances are white powders visually identical to the pure drug. As with every other drug, it is heavily recommended to reagent test the substance to identify the chemicals and drugs it is made of. Reagent testing kits are fairly inexpensive yet they can save your life and spare your from ingesting a drug laced with something deadly like fentanyl. The Marquis and Liebermann reagent tests are recommended for cocaine testing. The marquis reagent can identify cocaine mixed with amphetamines

Morris, Marquis, and Liebermann reagents. These kits that are capable of detecting specific cuts (levamisole and lidocaine)

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How to reagent test Cocaine

Reagent testing cocaine step 1

Morris reagent

Real cocaine causes a blue color when it comes in contact with the morris reagent

Any other color besides blue indicates the powder may be laced with another drug. Morris reagent is a 2 step process with 2 liquids used at the same time on the same sample.

Reagent testing cocaine step 2

Marquis reagent

This reagent does not confirm the sample is cocaine. It is meant to show you possible drugs laced into the powder. The marquis reagent must be used with step 1 and 3 to be confident.

Reagent testing cocaine step 3

Liebermann reagent

Real cocaine causes a yellow tan color

Note that ketamine also has the same color. The Morris reagent (step 1) can distinguish ketamine from cocaine.

Final Step

ALWAYS USE A FENTANYL TESTING STRIP

Use a fentanyl test for every drug you intend to take.

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