Is “liquid cocaine” a new problem ?
I’d never heard of it before, but today’s paper says on AA flight 10 from LA to NYC everybody got sick.
A bottle of “Canadian Club” got broken and liquid cocaine fumes filled the cabin.
Is this a common way to smuggle?
Sounds like it would be, since it avoid fear of sniffing dogs, and even most forms of hand inspection.
Or is this old news?
“Liquid cocaine” on Google brings up drink recipes.
http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~ahill/Liquid%20Cocaine.htm
Ingredients
2/5 Pepppermint Schnapps
2/5 Jagermeister
1/5 151 Proof Rum
http://www.barmeister.com/cgi-bin/drink.view.pl?drink=606
Liquid Cocaine 5
- 1 part(s) Goldshlager
- 1 part(s) Jagermeister
- 1 part(s) 151 Rum
Liquid Cocaine #1
Ingredients:
1/4 shot Grand Marnier
1/4 shot Southern Comfort
1/4 shot Vodka (Absolut)
1/4 shot Amaretto
1 splash Pineapple juice
Liquid Cocaine #5
Ingredients:
1/4 oz Vodka
1/4 oz Amaretto
1/4 oz Southern Comfort
1/4 oz Cointreau
3/4 oz Pineapple juice
1 splash 7-Up
Have you got a link to the news story? If it was connected with drug smuggling, I think you’re talking about cocaine that was dissolved in whiskey or something. I’ve never heard of a new drug substance called “liquid cocaine”.
12/18/2000 Oakland Tribune p.3 Top left corner headline: “Redeye Arrest”. Should be in NY papers too.
Here is a link to the story from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/12/18/redeye.arrest.ap/index.html
I don’t know, it might be GHB, which I just found out about very recently. It also goes under names like Liquid E or Liquid X. It’s some nasty shit. Especially when taken with alcohol, when it can be fatal. If it was GHB, it’s nothing new. It was synthesized thirty years ago and was actually available over the coutner in the 80’s, but for health reasons, of all things. It’s also used as a date rape drug from time to time. Nowadays, it’s mostly ravers and such who use it. All the effects of alcohol and no hangover. I guess the gains outweigh the risks in some peoples’ minds. Like maybe JDT.
In 1970 I went to an ear nose & throat doctor & right there on his table was a bottle of liquid cocaine.
I recomend a 7% solution.
Maybe I’m way off here, but is this similar to what they use at the optometrist to dilate your eyes? Someone told me that this was a cocaine derivative, but that could be a UL…
Liquid cocaine doesn’t seem all that new. About a hundred years ago, cocaine was injected, not inhaled or smoked. I wonder if the liquid cocaine mentioned was intended for a similar use.
Incidentally there is an anesthetic for the needle-phobic which works by immersion. That is you stick your afflicted region (hands or feet) in the solution, and it goes numb. The solution is called TAC, which stands for tetracaine, adrenaline and cocaine. See
http://pedspain.nursing.uiowa.edu/Procedur/Tacpt.htm
Cocaine is readily disolvable in saline solutions, or other liquids. Itcould have easily been cocaine disolved in alcohol, or somehing else. It was not GHB.
I know people who still do this. They say shooting it gives you a rush that is far beyond anything you can experience snorting or shooting it. Cocaine is one of the more popular IV drugs, probably between heroin and crank (shooting crank doesn’t have any more effect than snorting or smoking it, people do it that way because it’s easier and they are already used to needles).
I also knew a guy who had cocaine disolved in purified water and kept it in one of those nose-spray devices, like you use for some allergy medicine. Very convenient, and hard to get busted.
Your damn right it’s a problem. You ever try to get liquid cocain to stay up your nose? Try to make a half decent line out of the stuff and all you get is a big mess. Plus when you try to fold it into a bindle (kids, ask your parents what a “bindle” is) it just leaks all over. If it spills on your pants you get chased by baseheads until it dries out. It’s just horrible I tell you.
I’ve heard that cocaine dissolved in Jack Daniels was the breakfast of choice for Stevie Ray Vaugn.
Nice. Care to share a cite for that?
I think this was on VH1’s “History of Rock”
But I could be mistaken. I did recently hear this somewhere.
Actually it was on the Stevie Ray Vaughan “Legends” VH1 show. At his worst times in 1985 he was up to 7 grams a day and yes, one of those grams was dissolved in a glass of whiskey for a morning pick-me-up.
Thanks, all. I know he was something of an abuser, but I don’t like to have stuff like that on the boards without a cite.