Ok - my own fault for looking under the “quirky” news section, but well, at least it was neither war nor Oscars.
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Taken from trom this article:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_763222.html
Disclaimer - no I have never used cocaine, but it was my impression that it is more of a “get lvely, wake-up” thing than a relaxant.
And how lrgal would that be in Peru, I wonder. Would there then be a trade in contraband confectionary?
Ah, my level of ignorance is great.
Sadly, I have used cocaine, many years ago in my younger, stupider days. I’ll never touch the stuff again. I don’t know about very, very small doses, which I assume we’re talking about here, but at the doses coke users take, it’s definitely a stimulant. I could never relax after doing a line, and I hated it, yet I still wanted more. Nasty, nasty stuff.
Maybe it’s something like alcohol, which at relatively low doses acts like a stimulant, but at higher dosages, behaves like a depressant, but that’s a WAG.
I have never used it. What I have read is enough to make me too afraid to use it. Yes it is a stimulant, so much so that people who cannot control their addiction suffer heart attacks because they get so high that their hear can’t keep up with its own demand for oxygen.
That is too scary for me to even consider eating one piece of this candy.
Actually, it mainly kills by shutting down the brain stem. I very nearly died from it shortly after I started using, yet I didn’t stop then. Don’t touch the stuff, I tell you. It’s evil
Thank you all for your replies - yes - it does sound jsut a wee bit unhealthy!
Heck - I just thought ( rather flippantly, I admit) can you imagine how awful kids would be if they got hold of this. The creatures are bad enough already!
Cocaine is known for causing heart attacks and brain damage, in addition to profoundly stupid behavior.
I actually couldn’t find an MSDS for cocaine (heh, imagine that, I guess OSHA doesn’t care much for coke). So I went to Erowid and found cocaine’s effects. Happy reading.
–Derleth, who only uses caffeine.
OSHA’s got nothing to do with it; you just don’t know where to look. Read it and weep: MSDS for cocaine hydrochloride (PDF file), from the United States Pharmacopeia, no less!
From what I understand, chewing coca leaves is common in Peru, and at such low doses its effects are very similar to the effects one gets from caffeine consumption. I assume that the “relax from the stress of daily life” portion of their claim is just referring to the slight mood elevation that might result, not the actual physiological effects of the drug.
In any case, I would assume that this candy has such a low dose of cocaine that it would be a lot more like chewing coca leaves than like inhaling concentrated cocaine hydrochloride powder, which is obviously a bad idea, what with the paranoia, psychosis, strokes, heart attacks, and whatnot that can result.
Now, if only it didn;t entail falling out with breakfast cereal manufacturers, I suppose they could be marketed as Coca-pops.
I have a Great idea for including it as an ingredient in a carbonated beverage. I haven’t a clue what we could call it though… Pepsi Coca?.. I dunno.
Nametag: I didn’t know if cocaine HCl was the same as Our Least Favored Alkaloid, so I didn’t follow links that mentioned it.
If it’s only at coca-leaf concentration, I don’t think it’s a major problem. Coca use in the Andes:
Tthanks - it begins to sound as if it is not worse, or maybe not even as bad, as the way many of us use caffeeine, for instance. And as for alchol.
Yes - I take the point abut the fizzy drink but just thought of it as “one of those things that only happened way back when”. Sorry.
I used cocaine a few times back int he mid 90’s…it was underwhelming. I expected this incredible high but it was just ok…nothing to write home about. But the downside…oh boy. Highly addictive, and extraordinarily expensive…not worth it no matter how you look at it, just stick with pot and alcohol.
Words of wisdom, BONGMASTER!
I like the spelling error in Nametag’s link: “adverse effects may include numbness at sight of contact”.
Something makes me doubt that they would use, in candy, cocaine HCl. My instincts tell me that it would be some more natural extraction method, but I could be wrong, even though it’s never happened before.
Man, my nasal mucosa are sore… I’m off to find a topical anaesthetic. Any suggestions?
Somewhat of a hijack here, but how well does cocaine work as a topical anesthetic on regular skin? Whenever I’ve gotten a cut or anything on my hand, foot, or whatever, the various topical creams or jellies that I’ve tried that had lidocaine, benzocaine, or dibucaine have never really done much good at numbing the pain at all. Is cocaine any different, or is it only good at numbing mucous membranes like the others seem to be?
Cocaine doesn’t do a thing on skin. I know from first hand experience. It does an excellent job of numbing the mucous membranes in the nose and mouth though. And thin skin on the lips is affected also, but not the thicker skin elsewhere on the body.
Does that include the exposed layers of dermis and whatnot that result when you get a cut? Or just regular unbroken skin?
Dunno about that. I honestly never tried, but in that instance, I imagine it might numb the area. I’ve heard of guys using it on the head of their penises, too, to prolong sex. The skin is very thin there, too. No, I never tried that myself, either.