Alcohol versus cocaine

[lennypartiv]

This is a lie. For several decades, the whole of America did this, including children.
Mexican machos who constantly snort cocaine look much healthier than European alcoholics with cellulite.

If you dilute the drug, it becomes less dangerous. Will addicts accept the diluted version?

 

[WinterBorn]

This is a lie. For several decades, the whole of America did this, including children.
Mexican machos who constantly snort cocaine look much healthier than European alcoholics with cellulite.

The same goes for heroin. I know a man who used heroin and opium all his life, he already has grandchildren, and his alcoholic daughter can barely move her legs.

Coca Cola did not contain cocaine. It did contain a small amount of coca leaves, but that is not cocaine.

from:
"Let's get a few things straight. Coca-Cola has never contained cocaine. Ever. It did contain coca leaves during the first 20 years or so of production but that is not the same as cocaine. Cocaine is the hydrolyzed product of coca leaves.

Cocaine, and the active substances of coca leaves, does not react well to acidic environments. In fact, it requires a basic environment for the body to properly absorb it. Since both coca cola and the stomach are highly acidic, the effects of cocaine in a drink would most likely have been very mild if at all detectable unless vast quantities were consumed.

Taking cocaine orally generally numbs your tongue and gums, you might have felt that and perhaps a slight constriction of blood vessels in the mouth but I doubt any other effects would be detectable from consumption of coca cola."



And all traces of "cocaine" were removed from Coca Cola in 1929. So people (including children) have no had Coca Cola with cocaine in it in nearly a century.

 

[Leo123]

If you do Cocaine you are in danger of running out. (Elvin Bishop)?

Many can't and won't stop on a days long binge shooting up over and over. They will do almost anything not to crash (unless they die or become immoblile).

Alchohol is a depressant. Cocaine is a stimulate.

Most don't have a clue what a long time Coke binger is like. Sweating, huddled, bloody arms, paranoid and shaking in the floor in a corner. I hear Meth can produce similar?

I suppose the weakest wiould die off first? Maybe it's a good thing to do what you post?

Yep, you always run out of Coke too fast!!! LOL

 

[Leo123]

Coca Cola did not contain cocaine. It did contain a small amount of coca leaves, but that is not cocaine.

from:
"Let's get a few things straight. Coca-Cola has never contained cocaine. Ever. It did contain coca leaves during the first 20 years or so of production but that is not the same as cocaine. Cocaine is the hydrolyzed product of coca leaves.

Cocaine, and the active substances of coca leaves, does not react well to acidic environments. In fact, it requires a basic environment for the body to properly absorb it. Since both coca cola and the stomach are highly acidic, the effects of cocaine in a drink would most likely have been very mild if at all detectable unless vast quantities were consumed.

Taking cocaine orally generally numbs your tongue and gums, you might have felt that and perhaps a slight constriction of blood vessels in the mouth but I doubt any other effects would be detectable from consumption of coca cola."



And all traces of "cocaine" were removed from Coca Cola in 1929. So people (including children) have no had Coca Cola with cocaine in it in nearly a century.

Coca leaves are a whole different thing. Coca tea is a mild stimulant. Chewing leaves with some kind of alkaline is a stronger stimulant but wreaks havoc on the mouth. Cocaine is multiple times stronger and very addictive.

 

[PeterPilot]

Drugs and alcohol may not be a problem for the user/addict, but they are for everyone else. That's the problem with drugs and alcohol.

They are a problem for others ONLY because the idiots in Congress insist upon keeping the drug prohibition in place.

Drunk humans are nothing new under the sun. The vast majority of us use alcohol responsibly.

Utopia is not an option, and prohibition does not work.

 

[Woodznutz]

They are a problem for others ONLY because the idiots in Congress insist upon keeping the drug prohibition in place.

Drunk humans are nothing new under the sun. The vast majority of us use alcohol responsibly.

Utopia is not an option, and prohibition does not work.

In the de facto sense all drugs are legal now based on their widespread availability and use with impunity. In fact, the now widespread availability of Narcan enables the habitual use of opioids. Look for many more "frequent flyers" visiting the emergency departments.

 

[PeterPilot]

In the de facto sense all drugs are legal now based on their widespread availability and use with impunity. In fact, the now widespread availability of Narcan enables the habitual use of opioids. Look for many more "frequent flyers" visiting the emergency departments.

But in the de jure sense certain drugs are still illegal, and that allows the prohibition and its social pathologies to flourish.

 

[Woodznutz]

But in the de jure sense certain drugs are still illegal, and that allows the prohibition and its social pathologies to flourish.

We have yet to play the de jure card.

Drug use yields so much profit for those involved in law enforcement that they are reluctant to solve it. Why kill the goose...

 

[PeterPilot]

Drug use yields so much profit for those involved in law enforcement that they are reluctant to solve it. Why kill the goose...

That is certainly an important factor in why the drug policy status quo is defended.