What is the chemical in cocaine (or whatever its cut with) that makes a user void their bowels so quickly and so thoroughly? And is it an ingredient in any legal laxatives?
Cocaine.
Not being a chemist, Joey, I can’t be sure, but, since cocaine has the chemical formula C17 H21 NO4, I’m thinking there may be more than one chemical in the pure drug. And, as I mentioned in the OP, the substance in question could lie in whatever street coke is cut with. You’re answer wasn’t helpful, nor was it clever.
From: Psychedelic Chemistry - Cocaine
Many ingredients used to cut cocaine have a laxative effect. I couldn’t tell you which ones are most commonly used in which countries. Some of the more caustic agents, like quinine, are typically used to cut heroin. I think the milk sugars are usually used to cut cocaine.
From your link, it appears only the Italian mannite is used as a laxative.
Has anyone here tried mannite as a laxative (that they know of) – does it work instantaneously and comprehensively (maybe in large amounts)?
Just clarifying here - that’s not what it means. That formula gives the composition of a single cocaine molecule.
Wasn’t trying to be clever.
Stimulants can act as laxatives, and cocaine being a stimulant…
Back in the '80s I heard that cocaine was often cut with the baby laxative Manitol. (I wonder if that would be a safe and legal substitute for a movie scene?)
WHAT?
Please explain how there can be more that one chemical in a PURE chemical!
Legal, OTC laxatives, use gentler purgatives, never a narcotic.
Johnny Depp mentioned snorting a lot of Lactose for the movie Blow.