Did you see how much gasoline is involved? No wonder they say it's so expensive!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4338596.stm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8152938365684296634&q=cocaine+war&hl=en

why is this tagged geek...

I really don't understand the obsession people have with the tag 'geek'. Every video I see now is tagged Geek...

In my opinion, the geek tag is the most ubiquitous (triple word score on scrabble!) - as it covers anything with:
- lots of information
- nerds / bespectacled social awkwards
- computers / technology
- space / comics / fantasy / sci-fi etc...

As us geeks are everywhere ("the geek shall inherit the Earth" - as our lord Jesus Christ did say! ) the Sift's on here mirror that (and there's alot of us nerds on here too!)

thats a whole lot of gasoline and amonia...

thats the sick shit. i'm in ecuador right now and life is really like that in some places...producing something for $800 bucks a kilo is really irresistible to poor communities. it seems to me that the $ spent on the war on drugs would be better spent working on sustainable development programs for colombia, peru, etc...

How and who came up with this? I can't see someone accidentally putting this all together, then seeing the white powder and saying, he let's snort this up our nose and see what happens.

Ayo for yayo, Walk around with yayo! All up in my nasal! I must have been crazed yo!

Stick to herbs.

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.....thats' why Farhad, don't sniff de coke, him'only burn the ganja....

Cocaine is environmentally friendly. The use recycled gasoline.

I think I may have found my calling.

So who still wants to shove all that in their veins?

That's just wrong. So much resources, the poor people dealing with all the checmicals and gun toteing guerrillas.

With all that gasoline, no wonder the shit is so expensive!

/obvious

Wumpus: it's generally inhaled into the respiratory system (up the nose for cocaine and via a pipe with crack). You're thinking of opiates, such as heroin: which are usually intravenous drugs.

How do people come up with these crazy recipes? "Hey guys! I just tried mixing coca leaves with concrete, sulfuric acid, ammonia and gasoline and it's AWESOME!" I suppose it's because it is so profitable and producers experiment to get the best product. The "free" market at work...?

benjee: Although most people do snort/inhale cocaine, you can inject it. Speedball is a mix of cocaine and heroin and that's what killed John Belushi, Chris Farley and River Phoenix.

Nevertheless, would any person with a grain of sanity willingly put that stuff into their body?

coke was discovered because chewing coca leaves has a stimulant effect and has been used by the cultures in latin america for centuries. researchers in the 19th century extracted the alkaloid named "cocaine" in a laboratory and the method was adapted so that it can be performed by just about anyone with the right knowledge and basic materials. in terms of how to consume it, various methods were attempted, smoking, eating, drinking, injecting being the frontrunners until snorting emerged as the most safe and direct way to consume it. believe it or not, cocaine (not speedballs) used to be injected for about 50 years in the late 19th early 20th century. it used to be considered a wonder drug until its negative effects were determined later on, its a killer anesthetic (discovered before novocaine) and an excellent stimulant, just too unpredictable to be useful by modern standards.

As a side note, did you know that marijuana was legal during prohibition? craziness.

....precisely, the reason so much good jazz came outta the 30's, and all the good times were 2 be had in Havana!!!

Jive, it's whats' for dinna'...

(cocaine is still uncommonly used for nasal surgeries in some states in the USA, and commonly in many other countries; I only know this because I have a friend who's dad is a pharmacist.)

As to Wumpus' comment questioning the sanity of abusers, cocaine is a powerful stimulant that can also induce a phychotropic euphoria.

Now, why would anybody enjoy feeling euphoric AND full of energy?

(yes, this is simplifying the point a bit much, but as a serious aside I have friends who use caffeine and nicotine daily, and an over-achieving friend who drinks ethanol heavily and has admited to trying cocaine whilst intoxicated. these people are all professionals or graduate pre-professionals.)

... so, the only thing I can fault this video for as a PSA is that it is preaching to the choir. coke-heads don't care whats in coke as long as it gets them high. I mean, people lick excretions off the back of toads to get high...

...and that's why drugs will always be, big money...like gasoline!

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