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Cocaine
Cocaine is usually sold as a powder. It can also be ‘washed up’ into crack cocaine, a smokable form of the drug.
The British pop artist Robbie Williams has described cocaine as God’s way of letting you know you’ve got too much money. If a cocaine habit gets a hold of you, you don’t have too much for too long.
So what’s this ‘ere charlie all abaht, then?
Like most drugs, cocaine comes from a plant. The coca plant. This plant grows in South America. Yes, until 1902 it was the real thing that went into that globally successful brand of soft drink. The coca content was replaced with caffeine (until the advent of caffeine-free cola). Like cocaine, caffeine is of course a stimulant drug.
If you wanted to get a buzz from the plant you’d need to chew a few leaves, and the mildly stimulant properties would give you a lift. Where it is grown and harvested, many people still do chew the leaves. The vast majority of cocaine is consumed in an entirely different way. Most people’s introduction to charlie involves a tightly rolled banknote, a line of finely chopped white powder and a nostril.
sniff!
and then just for good measure, the other nostril…
sniff!
…and then a rubbing of the wetted finger over the remaining crumbs, and over the gums.
a cold, chemical, numbing taste that hovers at the back of your throat, as the high unfolds and you are your very own number one fan. Funny, happy, laughing, menacing, delightful, tough, big, scary, outrageous, saucy, sexy, flirty, dirty, giggly, groovy, nasty, fast and sparkly, towering, masterful…well, whatever you want to be, really. Confident. With a very big capital C. Full of energy. Life and soul. You are the chosen one. For as long as it lasts, which is usually a maximum of thirty minutes…
What goes up..
…and before the coke’s wearing off, it’s time for some more. Someone using coke over the course of an evening can start to become compulsive about needing a little bit more, a little bit more, a quick line, a little toot…high doses can cause confusion, disorientation, and a belief that having another line will sort everything out. Even after relatively small doses cocaine use can produce feelings of anxiety, irritability, depression and paranoia. High doses increase the likelihood of these after-effects.
Some people say that they can use coke and feel fine the next day. No ‘hangover’ at all. They like the way they get high, it wears off, they’re back to normal. Not like other drugs that can leave you feeling all wired and twisted.
Everybody’s different. It’s just worth taking a moment to say that if you use cocaine and think the world’s meaningless and full of worthless bastards who occasionally seem like they’re ganging up on you, there may be a connection. Although it may mean that the world is indeed full of worthless bastards, and it might just be your turn to be picked on.
Aside from the psychological impact of the cocaine come-down, other common after effects are hunger and tiredness. As cocaine will reduce your appetite and reduce tiredness, two of the things you are probably unlikely to do if you’re using cocaine are eat properly and sleep.
And so, my dear Watson, pray tell…
What risks have we found here, Sir?
Regular cocaine use will lead to interrupted sleep patterns, anxiety and paranoia. It can cery quickly become a reinforcing cycle of behavior regularly using cocaine might find themselves feeling unwilling or unable to cope in a particular context unless they’ve had some charlie. It might be a work, home or social context, or another context, or several contexts…they might get stressed out and irritable when they’re not using. Occasional weekend ‘social’ use might become regular weekend use, if a party seems to go with less of a ‘bang’ if charlie’s not in the picture. Someone using every weekend can soon start to find that the weekdays become something to get through until the next weekend. And the weekend starts earlier. And lasts longer. Pretty soon you’re having a quick blast in the pub on a Wednesday, or before an important meeting that you want to be on top form for, or whatever other reason you’ve found to absolutely reasonably justify to yourself that this is not a problem, I’m in control here, and it’s just a little something to help me get through the day and it’s not like I inject or anything. It’s not like I get ill here. I mean, shit, it’s no different to smoking a cigarette really.
bang. gotcha.
And of course it’s not inevitable. It’s just really easy, if you can afford it. For some people, they know they’ve had enough when they’ve run out of money. If you’ve only got enough for half a gram then half a gram will have to do you. If you can afford a lot more than that – well, why not?
There is no physical dependence associated with cocaine. Someone using it regularly will not become ill if they stop using. People often experience a compulsion to take more, though, and can start to feel unable to have a ‘good’ time unless they are using cocaine.
Crack cocaine
‘Crack’ is also cocaine. It’s cocaine delivered in a highly potent and rapidly absorbed form. Some people chew coca leaves, some people sniff the powdered crystalline refined alkaloid cocaine hydrochloride and some people smoke the freebased alkaloid in the form of crack. Just like some people like to look at the full moon on a summer’s evening and others like to strap themselves to the top of an enormous hydrogen-fueled rocket that travels at four times the speed of sound to go have a closer look for themselves. And then burn-up on re-entry, parachute in from 20,000 ft and end up bobbing about in the midst of a vast ocean feeling a little lost and wondering when the last bus home is.
Crack is a smokable form of the same drug. It’s not just smoking cocaine – burning cocaine powder destroys the drug. Mixing cocaine with the right household chemicals to produce a smokable form, similar to (and much easier to produce than) freebased cocaine is the science of making crack. Rock. Wash. Stones. When crack is heated it produces a smoke containing cocaine which usually has a purity above 90%. When the smoke is inhaled it passes into the bloodstream through the lungs and quickly reaches the brain. Quickly as in within a heartbeat or two.
ignition…
…and within a few minutes the high is peaking, leveling, estimated time for re-entry is fifteen minutes…on my mark…10…9…8…
…splosh…
“I wonder when the last bus home is?”
This is of course the edited version of the experience. The splosh >>> bus transition is separated by as many blasts on the pipe as cash and time allows. The high is all of the high of cocaine, only more so. Immortal, untouchable. Omnipotent. And oh! for such a searingly short time. The compulsion to have more of that is massive. The come-down is like stepping off a bus. And then finding that the bus is floating several hundred feet above a dark, sinister, menacing place that is dark, and deep and bad. And it has your name on it. And there is absolutely no doubt about it, the world is absolutely definitely meaningless and full of worthless bastards who are ganging up on you just to press home the point about how pointless it all is and they can just fuck off. Bastards. I’ve just about had a fucking nuff of those sad little gits. I could go on…
The comedown from crack is far more distressing than the comedown from cocaine powder. Mood swings, irritability, anxiety and paranoia are common.
I’ve met regular crack users who have developed a smack habit after taking heroin on a regular basis to reduce the impact of the come down from the crack they’re using on a regular basis. It can all get very, very messy, very, very quickly. When you get into regular use it’s easy to blow hundreds on crack before you leave the house in the morning.
Unless you can’t afford it.
I guess that might be why some people are suggesting that there might be a link between crime and drug use. It kind of makes sense to me.
‘ello ‘ello ‘ello
In the UK, cocaine is controlled by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as a Class A, Schedule 2 drug.
Other Class A drugs include heroin and LSD.
if one were to want to syntheticly add shine to cocaine, what might he want to use?
Not his brain for sure :yakk:
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if u really wana be a cunt just spray it with hairspray and let it dry it will then look like the shine.
there is some new stuff going around london called ”Magic” it has fake shine. Even if it is shiney dusnt mean its negood, 1 of the best ways to test apart from actually sniffin some is to rub a small bit between ur fingers if its oily its generally good.
Shit on it?
i have seen coke that had fish scales added to it to make it look like it was the real deal. Fucking wierd. Looked really good, but you could just lift the shiney bits off of it with a knife. Giving advice on how to cut coke i dont mind, but giving advice on obviously trying to rip people off i think you should go get fucked personally mate. Unless you’ve bought some and been ripped off, in which case i apolagise(sp). Good coke should generally have a strong smell, flake when broken, not really hurt too much when going up and take about 5/10 mins before you start to go numb otherwise its probably had novacaine added to it.
or just don’t buy shit coke.
Cheap coke is usually shite and while you may fool your punters with it once or twice you ain’t gona be getting a regular client base by selling shiny coke.
First, let me give you a bit of background information. I am a 21 year old male and I have been using cocaine for about 1 year. I would consider my use as recreational. Over the past year there would be months where I would not even touch the drug. Then, months when I was using, I would do about 6 lines on just one day of the week and wouldnt touch it for at least another week. However, this month, I have used once a week for 4 weeks. This is where my problem has started….
Last wednesday after being out almost all night using cocaine and drinking alcohol, I came home and began coming off of the drug. The next day, at about 5 pm, my heart rate shot up without warning to 120 beats per minute. Needless to say, I was freaked out but decided to wait it out and eventually it went down to 80 beats per minute.
However, every once in a while, I will think about it and it can cause the heart to go back up to the 120 beats per minute. I decided to go to the emergency room where they gave me a EKG and did some blood and urine work. They said the EKG showed an abnormal rhythm with my heart. The blood and urine work actually showed up negative for cocaine and everything else just 4 days after having used.
I left the emergency room with a diagnosis from the ER doctor. He said I have heart palpitations. They also told me that the effects of the cocaine could still be effecting my system even though blood and urine showed up negative for cocaine. It has been about 6 days since I used cocaine. I feel like I have swallowed a bunch of diet pills. I feel drained.
I am hoping that my heart palpitations will eventually stop. If not, I will be getting referred to a specialist to have an echogram done on my heart.
Please, if anybody has any insight on this matter, please help. Will my heart palpiations stop? Will the effects eventually leave my system? Did I just get a bad batch of cocaine? I’m desperate for help.
Not sure if you got a bad batch..
Cocaine isn’t good for anybody..
Normally cocaine can be found in an urine sample 48-72 hours depending on how much you have taken..
Can sometimes be found in a urine sample more that 10-14 days after, if your a heavily user..
Some of the short term effects
Long term effects
Medical effects
Hope you’ll be okay..Cocaine is a shit drug
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The devils dandruff!
i have had 2 mates that i can think of go into hospital with the same kind of story and symptoms …. both not HEAVY users of coke .. but did it semi often ….
i remember one told me the doctors had said he was having heart flutters .. where it beats randomly for a second every now and then …. the other i cant remember .. but iirc it was something similar….any stimulant …. will have some kind of effect on your heart … i have had alot of problems after doing stimulants where i get pains in my chest and shit stupidly high bpm’s. …… i just ignor it … but you should cut down or stop use if it does shit like that to you or you might be playing with your life ..
Thats your heart kicking off and misbehaving after using the coke – personally I would qut taking it and stay off it for at least 6 months and see how it goes. It doesnt sound nice anyway :hopeless: and I would seriously consider not taking it again.
lay off it for a while seriously it doesnt seem like that 1 little line is gonna do you any harm but they add up, just go all out and say nope no more coke for at least afew months
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